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  • Audiobook

    I Went to See My Father

    by Kyung-Sook Shin ...
    Narrated by Megan Affonso ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 59 min

    “The bus began to pull away before I had a chance to shout goodbye to Father. I think about that moment from time to time. About how long he must’ve stood there after the bus had left. About what he must’ve felt staring down that dark road, long after the bus had disappeared.About how long he must’ve waited before going back inside the store.”—From Chapter 1Two years after losing her daughter in a ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toward Eternity

    A Novel

    by Anton Hur ...
    "A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the building and burning of bridges." -New York Times*A PARADE, LITHUB, and CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS Best New ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cursed Bunny

    by Bora Chung ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society. Anton Hur's translation skilfully captures the ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Underground Village

    by Kyeong-ae Kang ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    Kang Kyeong-ae (1906-1944), one of Korea's great modern authors, wrote her stories during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Kang's work is remarkable for its rejection of colonialism, patriarchy, and ethnic nationalism during a period when such views were truly radical and dangerous. With an expert commentary by Sang-kyung Lee and beautifully translated by Anton Hur, this collection of Kang's work ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • That Summer's End

    Poems

    by Lee Seong-bok ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    One hundred and six poems of self-reflection and exquisite beauty—an intoxicating blend of Seon Buddhism and French Symbolism from one of South Korea's most celebrated and influential poetsThat summer I stood in the centers of storms That summer my despair burst out into crimson but still I weathered the wind and rainMountains, rivers, trees, flowers, the dark, a cat, a train. In the elemental ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Magical Girl Retires

    A Novel

    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    by Park Seolyeon ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Counterweight

    A Novel

    by Djuna ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    A WIRED "BOOK YOU NEED TO READ" • For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world’s first space elevatorAn “antic, madcap noir with flair" (Wired) and“fast-paced cyberpunk story” (The New York Times Book Review) from one ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Violets

    by Kyung-Sook Shin ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    By Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin, "a moving delve into a lonely psyche" that follows a neglected young woman's search for human connection in contemporary Seoul (YZ Chin).San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul’s bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life—painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capitalists Must Starve : A Novel

    by Seolyeon Park ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    From the writer and translator duo of A Magical Girl Retires, a powerful historical novel about labour activism in Japanese-occupied Korea.Set against the backdrop of Japanese-occupied Korea, Capitalists Must Starve follows a sharp-tongued, big-hearted heroine who dares to love, rebel, and carve out space for working-class women in a world determined to silence them. Echoing the unflinching ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Sword

    by Bora Chung ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    Amid a literal fog of war on a disputed planet, a woman is thrust into battle, forced to fight in her captors' war. With an empire at her back, ready to kill her at the slightest hesitation, this slaveturned- reluctant hero must battle through an unknown enemy, scientific abominations, and truly alien terrain to uncover the truth about her identity and that of her enslaved companions.Chung's novel ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Toward Eternity

    A Novel

    by Anton Hur ...
    Narrated by David Lee Huynh, Nicky Endres, Zoleka Vundla, Katherine Littrell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    ""A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the building and burning of bridges."" -New York Times*A PARADE, LITHUB, and CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS Best ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Heart of the Nhaga

    Book One of the Bird That Drinks Tears

    by Lee Young-do ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    Series Book 1 - The Bird That Drinks Tears
    Welcome to Lee Young-do’s epic classic series, The Bird That Drinks Tears. The master of Korean fantasy—often cited as the J.R.R. Tolkien of South Korea—Lee Young-do has created a tale of castles built on the backs of flying mantas, giant birdmen, heartless immortals, and a quest that will change the very nature of the world and its gods, available for the first time in English by award-winning ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook