Korean Fiction

From master storyteller An Na comes the Printz Award-winning novel about a Korean girl who tells her firsthand account of trying to find her place and identity in America from the day she leaves Korea as a child to her rocky journey through the teenage years.

From Sophie Kim comes the second book in the epic fantasy based on Korean mythology, an unflinching roller coaster ride of action, romance, and intricate fantasy lore.

'죽고 싶다'와 '살기 싫다'의 중간 즈음 잠시 멈춤이 존재한다면…. 현재까지 인류는 스스로 냉동되어 졌으나 해동된 기록은 없다. 언제 해동 기술이 개발될지는 알 수도 없다. 언젠가 깨어나는 것이 아닌 누군가 깨워 줘야 하지만 얼마의 긴 시간 동안 동면을 해야 할지 알 수 없는 시간이 지난 후 깨어난다면 과연 내가 원하던 삶을 살 수 있을까? 불치의 병을 완치시켜 줄까? 아직은 인류의 숙제로 남아있는 인간의 냉동과 해동에 관한 어쩌면 일어날지도 모르는 일을 이야기로 풀었다.

Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman known only as the “trickster.” Inspired by the story of Lee’s great aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea, 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster consists of eight dark and spellbinding chapters that follow this remarkable character and her family as they struggle to survive during the most turbulent times of modern Korean history.

Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend—an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow—comes to claim her at last. Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But beyond these ghosts, Elsa also faces a more earthly fate.

One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside when he sees something impossible: a huge black orb appears out of nowhere and sucks his neighbor inside. Jeong-su manages to get away, but the terrifying sphere can move through walls, so he’s sure he won’t be able to hide for long. The orb soon begins consuming every person caught in its path, and no one knows how to stop it. Impervious to bullets and tanks, the orb splits and multiplies, chasing the hapless residents of Seoul out into the country and sparking a global crisis with widespread violence and looting.

Elena Soo has always felt overshadowed. Whether by her more successful older sisters, her more popular twin brother, or her more outgoing best friend, everyone except Elena seems to know exactly who they are and what they want. But she is certain about one thing—she has no interest in going to prom. While the rest of the school is giddy over corsages and dresses, Elena would rather spend her time working to save the local community center. So when international K-pop superstar Robbie Choi shows up at her house to ask her to prom, Elena is more confused than ever.

It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. The bit in his teeth, Douglas MacArthur surges across the 38th parallel toward the Yalu River, only to encounter the Chinese in full force, who drive him back in turn.

In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come. Hak Jeonga has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to preserve the reputations of her loved ones. How could she have known that decades later, this decision would return to haunt her?

With much anticipation, Nick Simoneschi's first international thriller spy adventure book is about to be released. In the novel, Nick Taylor, a famous spy who is now retired, awakens unexpectedly in his New York flat after all quiet has been disturbed. Someone from Nick Taylor's previous career as a CIA agent started targeting him. An old friend named Martin De Simone rushed to the aid of his best friend, and the two of them embarked on a mission to track down the mastermind of the conspiracy that sought to control and profit from the drug cartels in Asia and South America. This is a ...

When her friends gift her a 23-and-Me test as a gag, high school senior Chloe Kang doesn’t think much of trying it out. She doesn’t believe anything will come of it—she’s an only child, her mother is an orphan, and her father died in Seoul before she was even born, and before her mother moved to Oklahoma. It’s been just Chloe and her mom her whole life. But the DNA test reveals something Chloe never expected— she’s got a whole extended family from her father’s side half a world away in Korea.

When his jet malfunctions, Captain Ward Millar makes a last-second decision to eject over enemy territory in North Korea before his plane explodes. His parachute barely opens before impact, saving his life, but the hard landing snaps both of his ankles. Unable to walk, Captain Millar is easily captured by North Korean and Chinese soldiers. His captors interrogate, threaten, and starve him in an attempt to extract strategic wartime information. He stalls the inevitable by feeding the enemy false information, but it’s only a matter of time before they discover his lies.

No dictator lasts forever. North Korea is about to learn that the hard way Six months into the war, Germany’s assault on North Korea has stalled. Major allies, buckling under U.S. pressure, are withdrawing. Meanwhile, Pyongyang unleashes a wave of terrorist attacks inside Germany, leaving the public furious and the government on the verge of crisis. To end the deadlock, Berlin turns to Major Sophie Decker, ruthless head of Department 89, an elite military intelligence unit known for doing what others won’t. Her orders: take the war to North Korea’s doorstep—and make it hurt. But in ...

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.

On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special. Her notebook is filled with mortifying memories that she's reworked into comedy gold. All she needs is a stage and courage.

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 a good husband. But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. Her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Green's involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles.

The Chemistry of Love A Multicultural Romance with a Supernatural Twist — Where Science Meets Destiny What if the one you love dies in your arms… only to meet you again in another lifetime? Brandon Jung, a brilliant Korean American civil rights attorney, is deeply in love with Tia Singh, a gifted chemist of Trinidadian heritage. But when suspicion and betrayal threaten to destroy their relationship, Tia turns to science—and something far beyond it. A love potion meant to reveal truth sets off a chain reaction of obsession, lies, and supernatural forces neither of them understand. Set ...

A boy searches for his father, a prison guard, on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. The Hive and the Honey is a “virtuosic” (Vanity Fair) collection by celebrated author Paul Yoon, one that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters.

윌북의 걸 클래식 컬렉션 두 번째 시리즈. 영원히 새롭게 읽히는 고전 명작 『이상한 나라의 앨리스』가 새 번역으로 나왔다. 과거와 현재의 가치를 잇는 디자인 스튜디오 오이뮤가 표지를 디자인해 소장가치를 높였으며, 유영번역상을 수상한 번역가 고정아의 정확하고도 유려한 번역이 지금 우리가 '앨리스'를 어떻게 다시 들을 수 있는지 그 방향을 제안한다. 또한 책, 영화, 여행, 여성 등 여러 분야를 넘나드는 작가 이다혜가 예리한 시선과 섬세한 문장으로 써 내려간 서문은 우리를 다시 한번 '이상한 나라'에 푹 빠져들게 한다. 문학사에서 가장 환상적이고, 신비롭고, 지적 유희로 가득한 세계 『이상한 나라의 앨리스』. 하얀 토끼가 보이면 따라가야 한다. 그것이 세상 모든 아이들의 숙명이자, 책을 읽는 우리의 의무다.

Maya’s grandmother, Halmunee, may be losing her memory, but there’s something almost magical about the way she cooks. Whether Halmunee serves salty miyeokguk or sweet songpyeon, her stories about Korea come to life for Maya. Then one day, something extraordinary happens: a single delicious bite of patbingsu transports Maya and Halmunee back into one of Halmunee’s memories. Suddenly they’re in Seoul, and Halmunee is young. This is just the first of many secrets Maya will uncover: that she and her grandmother can time-travel, and they aren’t the only ones with this ability.