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  • Hello Baby

    A Novel

    by Kim Eui-Kyung ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    **The bonds between six women undergoing IVF are tested when one announces an unexpected birth in this absorbing, candid novel about what women endure to become mothers“Already a feminist sensation in South Korea, it’s candid, sharp and quietly devastating. And at just over 200 pages, you’ll finish it in a sitting and think about it for weeks.”—Dua Lipa’s Service95**Outside the chat, they had ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Beauty Looks Down on Me

    by Eun Heekyung ...
    Translated by Yoonjin Park, Craig Bott, Sora Kim-Russell, Jae Won Chung ...
    Series series Library of Korean Literature
    Beauty Looks Down On Me is a collection of by turns sad and funny stories about the thwarted expectations of the young as they grow older. HeeKyung’s characters are misfits who by virtue of their bodies or their lack of social status are left to dream of momentous changes that will never come. Unsatisfied with work, with family, with friends, they lose themselves in diets, books, and blogs. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Happy Time

    by Gong Ji-young ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    With over a million copies sold in South Korea, this is a gripping and passionate death row love story for fans of Please Look After Mother, vividly told by a major Korean talent.Yu-Jung – beautiful, wealthy, bright – is lying in her hospital bed, recovering from her third suicide attempt, when she receives a visit that will change her life. Her no-nonsense aunt, a nun, appears by her side, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mater 2–10

    shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

    by Hwang Sok-yong ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Youngjae Josephine Bae ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEInternational Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history.In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-storey factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • City of Ash and Red

    A Novel

    by Hye-young Pyun ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    NAMED AN NPR GREAT READ OF 2018From the Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of The Hole, a Kafkaesque tale of crime and punishment hailed by Korea’s Wall Street Journal as “an airtight masterpiece.”Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Hole

    A Novel

    by Hye-young Pyun ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    Winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson AwardNamed One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine.In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Prisoner

    A Memoir

    by Hwang Sok-yong ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Anton Hur ...
    A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelistIn 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Law of Lines

    A Novel

    by Hye-young Pyun ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    From the award-winning author of The Hole, a "Simmering" (New York Times Book Review) and "Compelling" (Wall Street Journal ) thriller—"A **mystery masterpiece . . . Hye-young Pyun at her best" (Books & Bao), named a "Best International Crime Novel of 2020" (****CrimeReads) and selected as one of "**Our 65 Favorite Books of the Year" (LitHub)The Law of Lines... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Owl Cries

    A Novel

    by Hye-young Pyun ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    From the Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of The Hole, a slow-burning thriller with a touch of horror and the uncannyA disappearance. A missing brother. A lawyer asking questions. And a vast forest in the mountains—the western woods—where the trees huddle close together emanating a crushing darkness and a chill dampness fills the air. The ranger, In-su Park, who lives nearby with his family, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • To the Kennels

    And Other Stories

    by Hye-young Pyun ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Heinz Insu Fenkl ...
    **An acclaimed story collection from the author of the Shirley Jackson Award–winning novel The Hole*Booklist Starred Review***Six elephants bolt from an amusement park and vanish; where they’re found brings back memories of a forgotten dictator. A car ride on a foggy highway at night becomes a drive through hell for a young couple getting away for the weekend together. A family lives the dream of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Princess Bari

    by Hwang Sok-yong ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    A modern-day quest novel from one of Korea’s most renowned novelists.Princess Bari tells the story of a young girl, frail and brave, who escapes from famine and death in North Korea in the 1990s. Seeking refuge in China before crossing oceans in the hold of a cargo ship, she disembarks in London, with its bewildering mix of cultures, religions, and languages.In this foreign city, Bari finds work ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research

    Edited by Andreas Schwarz, Matthew W. Seeger, Sora Kim ...
    Series series Handbooks in Communication and Media
    Global Insights on Navigating Today’s Complex CrisesNow in its second edition, The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research offers a timely and comprehensive exploration of the methods, challenges, and innovations in managing present-day global crises and risks. Bringing together expert insights from across the fields of communication, public relations, and social sciences, ... Read more

    $161.00 USD