Asian literature / Korean Literature

The Disaster Tourist

by Yun Ko-eun, Natalie Naudus & Lizzie Buehler – Blackstone Publishing (November 19, 2020)

An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global dialog around climate activism, dark tourism, and the #MeToo movement.

For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind...

Untold Night and Day

by Bae Suah – The Overlook Press (May 04, 2020)

A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by South Korea’s leading contemporary writer

A startling and boundary-pushing novel, Untold Night and Day tells...

City of Ash and Red

by Hye-young Pyun & Sora Kim-Russell – Arcade (November 06, 2018)

NAMED AN NPR GREAT READ OF 2018

From 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.”...

The Only Child

by Mi-ae Seo – Ecco (February 11, 2020)

An eerie and absorbing novel following a criminal psychologist who has discovered shocking and possibly dangerous connections between a serial killer and her stepdaughter. The book to read for fans of the...

North Station

by Suah Bae & Deborah Smith – Open Letter (September 18, 2017)

A writer struggles with the death of her mentor; an experimental play goes awry; time freezes for two lovers on a platform, waiting for the train that will take one of them away. In these seven stories Bae demonstrates...

A Greater Music

by Suah Bae & Deborah Smith – Open Letter (September 19, 2016)

Near the beginning of A Greater Music, the narrator, a young Korean writer, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs, where she’s been housesitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion...

The Impossible Fairy Tale

by Han Yujoo & Janet Hong – Graywolf Press (March 06, 2017)

A chilling, wildly original novel from a major new voice from South Korea

The Impossible Fairy Tale is the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is ?lucky??she is spoiled by her mother and, as she...

Recitation

by Suah Bae & Deborah Smith – Deep Vellum Publishing (January 02, 2017)

A mysterious actress turned wanderer shares her story with a nameless emigrant "chorus" in this novel exploring memory and personhood

Vaseline Buddha

by Jung Young Moon & Jung Yewon – Deep Vellum Publishing (June 13, 2016)

A tour-de-force in automatic writing from South Korea's eccentric, award-winning contemporary master delves into subconscious worlds blending reality and imagination.

Shelter

by Jung Yun – Picador (March 14, 2016)

"Shelter is domestic drama at its best, a gripping narrative of secrets and revelations that seized me from beginning to end."?Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Sympathizer

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