World Literature - Korea

  • Hunger

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    A word-of-mouth phenomenon turned best-selling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically daring novel that reveals how love and money shape, wound, and consume us.

    “A feast for the l

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    • Author: Jin-Young, Choi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: May 12 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798889661849
    • Language: English
  • Simple Heart

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    In this moving exploration of dual identities reminiscent of Past Lives, a writer’s pregnancy raises questions about her own childhood abandonment.

    Nana, a Korean-born playwright, was adopted as a chi

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    • Author: Haejin, Cho
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 1635425816
    • Language: English
  • Break Room: A Gripping and Darkly Funny Game Show Thriller from the Author of the Dallergut Duology

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    A gripping and incisive psychological gameshow drama from one of the biggest stars in Korean fiction, author of million-copy bestseller The Dallergut Dream Department Store.

    Eight unsuspecting people

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    • Author: Lee, Miye
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: April 28 2026
    • ISBN10: 1639739076
    • Language: English
  • A Magical Girl Retires (Nomad Edition)

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    “Korean author Park Seolyeon’s English-language debut succeeds in ways no other recent novel has: in portraying the anxiety-riddled realities of coming of age in our present moment through an unexpect

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    • Author: Seolyeon, Park
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 0063469243
    • Language: English
  • Art on Fire

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    A darkly comic and compelling satire of the art world from the author of The Disaster Tourist.

    An Yiji’s career had been stalling for some time when a representative of the illustrious Robert Foundati

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    • Author: Ko-Eun, Yun
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1964992192
    • Language: English
  • The Melancholy of Untold History

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    A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like An

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    • Author: Kang, Minsoo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 006333755X
    • Language: English
  • Soyangri Book Kitchen

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    A heartwarming novel from a South Korean author about the healing power of books, perfect for readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

    With good books, good food and companionship, the Book Kitchen fi

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    • Author: Jee Hye, Kim
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 1454963689
    • Language: English
  • Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories

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    From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed obj[more below]

    • Author: Chung, Bora
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 30 2025
    • ISBN10: 164375663X
    • Language: English
  • The Melancholy of Untold History

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    A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like An

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    • Author: Kang, Minsoo
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063337509
    • Language: English
  • The Second Chance Convenience Store

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    • Author: Ho-yeon, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: June 17 2025
    • ISBN10: 63354772
    • Language: English
  • Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop: The Heart-Warming Korean Sensation

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    INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
    INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell’s Pick of the Month * A Bookshop Best Book of the Year So Far

    The Korean sma

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    • Author: Bo-Reum, Hwang
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: April 22 2025
    • ISBN10: 1639736379
    • Language: English
  • Concerning My Daughter

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    Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s quee[more below]

    • Author: Hye-Jin, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 27 2022
    • ISBN10: 1632063492
    • Language: English
  • Saha

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    In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates.

    Controlled by a secretive o… [more below]

    • Author: Nam-Joo, Cho
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1324094117
    • Language: English
  • A Magical Girl Retires

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    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 cre

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    • Author: Seolyeon, Park
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: April 30 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063373262
    • Language: English
  • Counsel Culture

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    From prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin comes the contemplative, superbly-crafted story of a woman scapegoated by sudden tragedy, and the unexpected paths she must wander in search of redemption.

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    • Author: Hye-Jin, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1632062321
    • Language: English
  • Violets

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    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 twen… [more below]

    • Author: Shin, Kyung-Sook
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 218
    • Publish Date: April 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 1558612904
    • Language: English
  • By: Djuna

    Counterweight

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    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 wrea

    • Author: Djuna
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: July 11, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593317211
    • Language: English
  • I Went to See My Father

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    An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mom; centering on a woman’s efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held family

    • Author: Shin, Kyung-Sook
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 11, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1662601379
    • Language: English
  • Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

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    AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER
    INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell’s Pick of the Month

    The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life nov

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    • Author: Bo-Reum, Hwang
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 20 2024
    • ISBN10: 163973242X
    • Language: English
  • The Liberators

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    Daejeon, South Korea. 1980. At twenty-four, Insuk falls in love with her college classmate, Sungho, and with her father’s blessing, they marry. But then, as the military dictatorship, martial law, and… [more below]

    • Author: Koh, E. J.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1959030159
    • Language: English
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