Books from South Korea
72 popular south korean books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from South Korea.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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O zmierzchu by Hwang Sok-yong PL
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Młody mężczyzna podróżuje ze swoim wiernym psim towarzyszem przez Koreę Południową. W plecaku ma tylko empetrójkę, książkę i przybory do pisania. Codziennie przed zaśnięciem pisze list adresowany do osoby, którą poznał podczas podróży. Każdemu, z kim przez krótką chwilę dzieli się opowieściami, nadaje numer: 32, 239, 412, 751… Jest wśród nich nastolatka, która przyłapała swoich rodziców na zdradzie, sprzedawca słodyczy w pociągu, artysta tworzący instalacje z gum do żucia i pisarka, która próbuje sprzedać swoje książki, akompaniując sobie na harmonijce. Czy wędrówka Jihuna będzie miała swój kr... continue
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One Left: A Novel by Kim Soom EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women have come forward only to have their testimonies and calls for compensation largely denied by the Japanese government. Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen while gathering snails for her starving family. The horrors of her life as... continue
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Pachinko : The New York Times Bestseller by Min Jin Lee EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover i... continue
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Perros / Dog Days by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim ES
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Un cómic íntimo y revelador sobre la esencia de la familia y la necesidad de crear vínculos, por la multigalardonada autora de Hierba y La espera, con más de 50.000 ejemplares vendidos en España. ***IMPRESCINDIBLE PARA LOS AMANTES DE LOS PERROS*** «Un arte poderoso, de trazo salvaje y negros muy densos». New York Times Book Review En el centro de esta historia hay una mujer que nunca consideró traer un perro a casa. Pero su marido, triste por la muerte de su abuela, con la que le unían fuertes lazos desde la infancia, insiste y acaban teniendo uno. Es el primer paso para un cambio en la vida d... continue
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Pizza Girl : A Novel by Jean Kyoung Frazier EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman comes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers. Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She's grieving the death of her father (whom she has more in common with than she'd like to admit), avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world... continue
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Please Look After Mom : A Novel by Kyŏng-suk Sin EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy.
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Reflections from Prison: 20 Years and 20 Days by Shin Young-bok EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Reflections from Prison is the collected letters and essays written by renowned Korean thinker Shin Young-Bok during his 20 years and 20 days as a political prisoner on a life tariff under Korea's military dictatorships. The letters range from postcards, to tiny characters squeezed onto his daily ration of two sheets of toilet paper. The writings themselves are not overtly political since all the letters went through censorships Yet he does not hide the harshness of prison life at the rock bottom of society. They provide a window onto his personal suffering during imprisonment a life sentence,... continue