The Age of Doubt
By: Pak Kyongni
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Age of Doubt collects some of Pak Kyongni’s most famous works, including her 1955 debut and oth…
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1. The Glass Bead Game
By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more
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2. Stingray
By: None , None , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed by critics, "Stingray" has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my lovin… read more
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3. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- adult
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
4. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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- asian literature
- short stories
- adult
- fiction
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
5. Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
By: Hawon Jung
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—o… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- womens
6. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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- asia
- short stories
- adult
- fiction
7. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- short stories
- fiction
- asian literature
- adult
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
8. I Went To See My Father
By: Shin Kyung-Sook
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- asia
- fiction
- asian literature
- adult
9. Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
By: Kyōko Nakajima
3.82
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exerci… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- short stories
- fiction
- asian literature
10. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
11. Violets
By: Shin Kyung-Sook
3.60
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a gir… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Only my death can make her love me. And if I have to die, I’ll die right here,"-Shin Kyung-Sook, Violets
12. The Plotters
By: Kim Un-Su
3.58
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
From the novelist dubbed "the Korean Henning Mankell" (The Guardian) comes a fantastical crime nove… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- adult
- fiction
"Black tea is steeped in imperialism. That's what gives it its flavor. Anything this flavorful has to be hiding an incredible amount of carnage."-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters
"That's life. Not much to it. Just one big stinking, filthy squalid mess. But once you get a taste of it - ah! Then it's not so bad. Sometimes it's even delicious."-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters
"He believed that people should emulate whales. He said that people had grown as small and crafty as rats , and that the days of taking slow, huge, beautiful strides had vanished, The age of giants wa…"-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters
"But just as a vaccine company facing bankruptcy will ultimately survive not by making the world's greatest vaccine but, rather, the world's worst virus, so, too, did bodyguard and security firms need…"-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters
13. City of Ash and Red
By: Hye-Young Pyun
3.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of J. G. Ballard and early Ian McEwan, a tense psychological thriller and Kafkaesque parab… read more
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- literature
- asia
- asian literature
- fiction
14. Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #5)
By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, t… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
15. I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2
By: Baek Se-hee
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
“Alih-alih menerima kekurangan, aku memutuskan untuk tidak memandang diriku sendiri secara negatif.… read more
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- asian literature
- adult
16. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
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- womens
17. The Underground Village
By: Kang Kyeong-ae
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Kang Kyeong-ae (1906-1944) was a Korean writer whose stories are remarkable for their rejection of … read more
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18. To the Warm Horizon
By: Jin-Young Choi
3.48
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
A group of Koreans are making their way across a disease-ravaged landscape—but to what end? To the … read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- fiction
"What misfortune wants is for me to mistreat myself. To look down on myself and destroy myself. I'll never come to resemble this disaster. I won't live as the disaster wants me to live."-Jin-Young Choi, To the Warm Horizon
19. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
By: Cho yeeun
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- short stories
- fiction
- asian literature
"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
20. Endless Blue Sky
By: Lee Hyoseok
3.52
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Set in 1940s colonial Korea and Japanese-occupied Manchuria, Endless Blue Sky tells the love story … read more
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21. The Age of Doubt
By: Pak Kyongni
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Age of Doubt collects some of Pak Kyongni’s most famous works, including her 1955 debut and oth… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- literature
- asia
- collections
- short stories
- fiction
- asian literature
- womens
- adult
