Korean Literature

Nine-tailed fox spirit Sunny Cho has spent years running from her destiny, but fate is upon her. Inevitable or not, she doesn’t like it one bit. After a harrowing battle with a dark enemy from her past, Sunny has nowhere left to go but back to the Realm of Four Kingdoms. She grudgingly trains as a suhoshin cadet by day while learning to harness the Yeoiju’s magic by night…to disheartening results. At least throwing herself into training with Jihun and her suhoshin friends keeps her from running to Ethan—a love that can never be.

『작은 공주 세라』는 『소공녀』의 새 이름이다. 원제 『A little Princess』에 일본식 표현이 아닌 저자의 의도를 살린 한글 제목을 붙였다. 부잣집 학생으로 특급 대우를 받다가 아버지의 죽음으로 어느 날 갑자기 누더기를 입고 허름한 다락방으로 쫓겨난 세라. 하지만 누구보다 강한 내면의 힘으로 역경을 이겨내는 소녀. 세라의 스펙터클한 인생 드라마는 1905년에도 지금도 수많은 독자들에게 희망이 되어준다. 연극, 영화, 애니메이션으로도 끊임없이 재창조되는 『작은 공주 세라』는 작품성과 내용 면에서 그 가치를 인정받으며 어린이와 교사는 물론 어른들에게도 반드시 읽어야 할 필독서로 꼽히는 작품이다.

Jack Steele survived the first Gulf War, Bosnia, and his time as a UN peacekeeper. As a captain and tank commander, he saw the dark side of war. Two UN officials have gone missing. They were last seen in the Tumen Triangle. A 324-mile river that borders Russia, China, and North Korea, it’s a place few Westerners have heard of or understand. It would be a prize-winning story if he could crack it. Sometimes fate puts a person where they need to be - and then he saw the child fall beneath the ice. When Steele rescued the boy, it was the first domino to fall.

In a Seoul slum marked for demolition, residents’ shadows have begun to rise. No one knows how or why—but, they warn each other, do not follow your shadow if it wanders away. Employees of a small electronics repair shop, Eungyo and Mujae can only watch their tight-knit community begin to fade as the landscape of their lives is torn apart, building by building. Their growing connection with one another provides solace, but against an uncaring ruling class and the inevitability of the rising shadows, their relationship may not be enough.

Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this.

대한민국 최고의 작가들이 선보이는. 여성주의 미스터리 소설집. 「까마귀 장례식」의 주인공은 한국으로 결혼 이주해 온 지 9년이 된 베트남 여성 리엔과 결혼 이주자 커뮤니티의 이야기다. 「까마귀 장례식」은 한국을 대표하는 추리소설의 대가, 서미애 작가가 오랜만에 발표하는 중단편 작품으로, 한국 농촌에 녹아든 결혼 이주민 커뮤니티의 현실을 섬세하게 그려 낸다.

『토우의 집』은 권여선 소설가가 이룬 가장 의미 있는 문학적 성취라고 할 수 있다. '장독 뒤에 숨어서'라는 제목으로 계간 『자음과모음』을 통해 2014년 봄부터 가을까지 연재된 작품으로, 우리가 정면으로 응시해야 할 고통과 상실의 현장을 다루고 있다.

Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name. Jade has done all the right things. She's curated herself to fit right in at her law firm, but tells herself she has no choice. She's with a man who loves her, but isn't always herself around him. She's made her Omma and Baba proud, but resents that they can't properly understand her. Jade is perfectly in control of her life. Until one terrible night unravels Jade's carefully constructed world, leaving her wondering who she truly is.

Kate Daniels is a co-pilot aboard the space shuttle Liberty. Liberty is to deploy a space defense system satellite created with the latest American technology. The shuttle crash-lands in the uncharted, mountainous frontier between North Korea and China. As the ranking able-bodied officer, Kate takes charge, evacuating the crew from the crash site. A mountain warlord captures the Liberty's crew, intending to sell the shuttle and its cargo to the highest bidder. On the world stage, this crisis rapidly escalates. The North Koreans forbid an American search and rescue operation, sending their own troops into the region instead.

Manila, Philippines, 2003. Dane Chandler is visiting Manila on a writing assignment. Jack Pierce is a tough-talking Korean War veteran. When Jack asks Dane to join him for cards at the pension's cafe, Dane instinctively agrees, sensing the man's "command" presence. What unfolds will change their lives forever. Tokyo, Japan, 1949. Jack Pierce joined the army for honor and adventure, finding himself garrisoned at Camp Drake, Tokyo. On a raucous night at Ginza's glitzy Club Florida, the young corporal meets the love of his life, Michiko Okura.

Arguing that North Korea is little more than a carefully constructed Chinese puppet state, the author looks into the heart of this "rogue nation" and finds the Chinese behind much of the terrorism and nuclear weapons manufacturing on the Korean peninsula.

Hope is not your typical teenage girl. After a tumultuous childhood, she is once again in a new town and a new school which her mother has dragged her to. As is often the case, she is one of the only Asian kids in an all-white school and is still dealing with family issues. Hope is struggling to adjust to her new environment as a freshman in high school, where she meets a school counselor who helps her wade through the entire school year as well as pushes her to explore her past.

『이 세상에 태어나길 참 잘했다』는 경제 위기로 가정이 해체되어 가는 우리 사회에 가족의 소중함과 사랑을 주제로, 이 사회의 기둥이 될 어린이들을 위한 특별한 성장동화입니다. 태어나자마자 어머니가 돌아가시고, 아버지마저 떠난 후에 이모와 외할머니 품에서 자라게 되는 초등 5학년 '김복동'이 주인공입니다. 복동이가 미국에서 새로운 가정을 일구고 있는 아버지를 만나게 되면서, 서로의 존재와 가정이 무엇인가를 생각하게 합니다. 새로운 가족(필리핀계 어머니와 이복 동생들)을 만나면서 처음에는 서로의 존재를 이해하는 것이 쉽지 않습니다. 하지만 그들은 차츰 서로의 존재를 받아들이며, 이 세상의 생명에는 다 뜻이 있으며, 어느 것 하나 하잘 것 없는 것이 없고, 생명을 잉태해 준 가족의 소중함을 깨닫게 됩니다.

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.

Whale, set in a remote village in South Korea, follows the lives of many linked characters, including Geumbok, an extremely ambitious woman who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who communicates with elephants; and a one-eyed woman who controls honeybees with a whistle. Brimming with surprises and wicked humor, Whale is an adventure-satire of epic proportions by one of the most original voices in international literature.

Mina is the perfect daughter. Bound for Harvard, president of the honor society, straight A student, all while she works at her family's dry cleaners and helps care for her hearing-impaired younger sister. On the outside, Mina does everything right. On the inside, Mina knows the truth. Her life is a lie.

The Korean CIA Director is killed by a North Korean assassin. Counterfeiting, drugs, and weapons of terror finance the North Korean government. Three Air Force Pararescuemen and a CIA Officer join with the South Korean 707th Brigade and a team of female assassins to form a team known only by President Reagan and CIA Director Casey, as "the Silent Six". Their task: the destruction of the North Korean gangster regime. "The Silent Six" is the ultimate Special Operations Team.

Gary Pak has emerged as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers of our time. In this new collection, Pak expertly crafts a memorable cast of Hawai'i's Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians, amplifying our cross-cultural understanding of Hawaiian life today.

The time is roughly now and Kai, a white-collar worker, has just been abandoned by his longtime lover. Follow him through a labyrinth of alleyways as he reels from this sudden departure. Accompany him up snowy mountains where he contemplates ending his own life. That mourning can be both an art and ever-unfolding journey is epitomized in the paths that Kai crosses and the lives he alters for better or worse.

Moving beyond the quasi-fraternal bond of the unforgettable George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, Hurt You explores the actual sibling bond of Georgia and Leonardo da Vinci Daewoo Kim, who has an unnamed neurological disability that resembles autism. The themes of race, disability, and class spin themselves out in a suburban high school where the Kim family has moved in order to access better services for Leonardo.