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What do readers say about Human Acts?
dark and gritty deep and emotional a powerful, truth-telling novel south korea’s gwangju uprisingFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.
In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named ... More details on Human Acts
In early 1980, South Korea was a heap of dry tinder waiting for a spark. Only a few months previously Park Chung-hee, the military strongman who’d ruled since his coup in 1961, had been assassinated b...
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What do readers say about Earthlings?
a far darker novel thought provoking and disturbing creative, socially conscious storytelling deeply disturbing and pointlessFrom the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes s... More details on Earthlings
As we wound our way up steep hairpin bends, I gazed out the window at the swaying trees, at the undersides of the leaves so swollen they looked as though they would burst. That was where the pitch-bla...
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What do readers say about Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982?
gender inequality in korea realistic, clinical chronicling a brave, bold book a very important bookA New York Times Editors Choice Selection
A global sensation, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 "has become...a touchstone for a conversation around feminism and gender" (Sarah Shin, Guardian).
One of the most notable novels of the year, hailed by both critics... More details on Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A few days later, Jiyoung said that she was Cha Seungyeon, a college friend who had died a year before. Seungyeon and Daehyun started college the same year and Jiyoung had been their junior by three y...
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What do readers say about The Yellow Wallpaper?
sharp, modern, intense writing another creepy novel nineteenth century gothic fiction early feminist literatureTHE YELLOW WALL-PAPER is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century tow... More details on The Yellow Wallpaper
If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—wha...
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What do readers say about Convenience Store Woman?
concise and clear short and thought-provoking clean, short sentences, refreshing unimaginative and uninsightfulShortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award
Longlisted for the Believer Book Award
Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller... More details on Convenience Store Woman
A convenience store is a world of sound. From the tinkle of the door chime to the voices of TV celebrities advertising new products over the in-store cable network, to the calls of the store workers, ...
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What do readers say about If I Had Your Face?
a beautifully crafted masterpiece lots of pain the characters are fascinating a feminist novelA riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania
Sujin is hell-bent on becoming a room salon girl. She has invited Kyuri from across the hall to our tiny apartment, and the three of us are sitting on the floor in a little triangle, looking out the w...
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What do readers say about The Memory Police?
loss and memory very thought provoking throughout memory, adaptation, and friendship a very strangeFinalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing... More details on The Memory Police
“Long ago, before you were born, there were many more things here,” my mother used to tell me when I was still a child. “Transparent things, fragrant things…fluttery ones, bright ones…wonderful things...
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What do readers say about Pachinko?
big sprawling generational stories clear and sympathetic epic historical novel koreans emigrating to japan"There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones."
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the... More details on Pachinko
At the turn of the century, an aging fisherman and his wife decided to take in lodgers for extra money. Both were born and raised in the fishing village of Yeongdo—a five-mile-wide islet beside the po...
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What do readers say about Breasts and Eggs?
an existential japanese novel straightforward and clear a short novella a self contained novellaThe story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan's most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE.
"BREASTS AND EGGS took my breath away."-HARUKI MURAKAMI
Challenging every preconception about storytell... More details on Breasts and Eggs
If you want to know how poor somebody was growing up, ask them how many windows they had. Don’t ask what was in their fridge or in their closet. The number of windows says it all. It says everything. ...
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What do readers say about Geek Love?
vivid and hypnotic bizarre but unputdownable novel a family of freaks horrible but perfectNational Book Award finalist
Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). Their offsprin... More details on Geek Love
“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized wi...
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