Books set in South Korea (98)
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1.
A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! June Hur, bestselling author of The Red Palace, crafts a devastating and pulse-pounding tale that will feel all-too-relevant in today’s world, based on a true story from Korean history. Hope is dangerous. Love is deadly. 1506, Joseon. The people suffer under the cruel reign of the tyrant King Yeonsan, powerless to stop him from commandeering their land for his recreational use, banning and burning books, and kidnapping and horrifically abusing women and girls as his personal playthings. Seventeen-year-old Iseul has lived a sheltered, privileged life despit... continue
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A Magical Girl Retires by Seolyeon Park EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga. Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul's Mapo Bridge. But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all in white--her guardian angel. Ah Roa is a clairvoyant magical girl on a mission to find the greatest magical girl of all time. And Park Seolyeon's protagonist just may be that special someone. But th... continue
4.
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Esta história é, em resumo, sobre um monstro encontrando outro monstro. Um dos monstros sou eu. Yunjae nasceu com uma condição neurológica chamada alexitimia, ou a incapacidade de identificar e expressar sentimentos, como medo, tristeza, desejo ou raiva. Ele não tem amigos — as duas estruturas em forma de amêndoas localizadas no fundo de seu cérebro causaram isso —, mas a mãe e a avó lhe proporcionam uma vida segura e tranquila. O pequeno apartamento em que moram, acima do sebo da mãe, é decorado com cartazes coloridos com lembretes de quando sorrir, quando agradecer e quando demonstrar preocu... continue
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Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
The gripping true story of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime in the early 1980s, and how she defied state censorship through the rebellion of reading.
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Bluebeard's First Wife by Seong-nan Ha EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Ha looks closely at the sordid underbelly of suburbia in Bluebeard's First Wife, the latest from one of Korea's preeminent authors.
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Broken Summer : A Novel by J. M. Lee EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
A death, a lie, a secret. For twenty-six summers he didn't have the courage to face the past. Lee Hanjo is an artist at the peak of his fame, envied and celebrated. Then, on his forty-third birthday, he awakens to find that his devoted wife has disappeared, leaving behind a soon-to-be-published novel she'd secretly written about the sordid past and questionable morality of an artist with a trajectory similar to Hanjo's. It's clear to him that his life is about to shatter and the demons from his past will come out. But why did his wife do it? Why now? The book forces Hanjo to reflect on a summe... continue
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Concerning My Daughter by KIM. HYE-JIN EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin's debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter's queer relationship. When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relatio... continue
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Conejo maldito by Bora Chung ES
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Las diez historias recogidas en este volumen plantean el terrible escenario, fuente habitual de miedos adultos e infantiles, de que lo sobrenatural se apodere del espacio doméstico y nuestra vida cotidiana.A medio camino entre el terror, la ciencia-ficción y la literatura del absurdo, Bora Chung ha unificado en sus cuentos todas sus obsesiones literarias: las leyendas tradicionales de Corea, la literatura europeagrotesca, los géneros fantásticos más retorcidos y una generosa dosis de terror cotidiano, todo ello acompañado de un enfoque feminista, pues muchos de los horrores que se describen en... continue