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The Impossible Fairytale tells the story of the nameless 'Child',
who struggles to make a mark on the world, and her classmate Mia,
whose spoiled life is everything the Child's is not. At school,
adults are nearly invisible, and the society the children create on
their own is marked by cruelty, soul-crushing hierarchies and an
underlying menace. Then, one day after hours, the Child sneaks into
the classroom to add ominous sentences to her classmates'
notebooks, unlocking a series of events with cataclysmically
horrible consequences. But that is not the end of this eerie,
unpredictable novel...
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Lemon (Hardcover)
Kwon Yeo-Sun; Narrated by Greg Chun, Greta Jung; Translated by Janet Hong; Narrated by Jaine Ye
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R452
Discovery Miles 4 520
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A haunting literary crime debut from an award-winning Korean
author. THE SISTER: In the summer of 2002, my big sister Hae-on was
murdered. She was beautiful, intelligent, and only nineteen years
old. Two boys were questioned, but the case was never solved. Her
killer still walks free. THE CLASSMATE: In the summer of 2002, my
classmate Hae-on was murdered. She was haughty, spoilt, a typical
rich kid. But she didn't deserve to die. Even now, years later, I
can't stop thinking about her. Who would do such a thing? THE
FRIEND: In the summer of 2002, my friend Hae-on was murdered. The
culprit was never found, but I think I know who did it... At once a
gripping crime story and a fascinating dissection of class, gender
and privilege in contemporary Korea, Lemon is the must-read novel
of 2021.
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Lemon (Paperback)
Kwon Yeo-Sun; Narrated by Greg Chun, Greta Jung; Translated by Janet Hong; Narrated by Jaine Ye
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R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This is not a murder story. It is the story of those left behind.
Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait
of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime. In the summer
of 2002, Kim Hae-on was killed in what became known as the High
School Beauty Murder. There were two suspects: Shin Jeongjun, who
had a rock-solid alibi, and Han Manu, to whom no evidence could be
pinned. The case went cold. Seventeen years pass without justice,
and the grief and uncertainty take a cruel toll on her younger
sister, Da-on, in particular. Unable to move on with her life,
Da-on tries in her own twisted way to recover some of what she's
lost, ultimately setting out to find the truth of what happened.
Shifting between the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on's
classmates, Lemon ostensibly takes the shape of a crime novel. But
identifying the perpetrator is not the main objective here: Kwon
Yeo-sun uses this well-worn form to craft a searing, timely
exploration of privilege, jealousy, trauma, and how we live with
the wrongs we have endured and inflicted in turn. Praise for Lemon:
'Discovering whodunnit isn't really the point here; Lemon is a
subtle, often intense meditation on the after-effects of violence'
Guardian 'Chilling, suspenseful and disconcerting... I couldn't put
it down and read deep into the night until I finished it, with my
heart hammering' Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face
A delicate, timeless, and breathtaking coming-of-age story. The
critically acclaimed and award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk
Gendry-Kim returns with a stunning addition to her body of graphic
fiction rooted in Korean history. Adapted from Park Wan-seo s
beloved novel, The Naked Tree paints a stark portrait of a single
nation s fabric slowly torn to shreds by political upheaval and
armed conflict. The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee
Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and
services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles
hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing
through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine
artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship
blossoms into a young woman s first brush with desire against the
backdrop of the Korean War at its most devastating. Gendry-Kim
brings a masterpiece of world literature to life with bold,
expressive lines that capture a denuded landscape brutally forced
into transition and the people who must find their way back to each
other within it. Available for the first time in English, this
edition of The Naked Tree is exquisitely translated by
award-winning expert Janet Hong.
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Rina
Young-Sook Kang; Translated by Kim Boram, Janet Hong
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R477
R391
Discovery Miles 3 910
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Wafers
Seong-nan Ha; Translated by Janet Hong
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R439
Discovery Miles 4 390
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The Waiting (Paperback)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim; Translated by Janet Hong
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R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family
secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean
War. It s not an uncommon story the peninsula was split across the
38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence
in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother s
story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other
Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply
resonant graphic novel. The Waiting is the fictional story of
Gwija, told by her novelist daughter, Jina. When Gwija was
seventeen years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing
unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she
didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the
couple started a family. But peace didn t come. The young family of
four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her
daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then
seventy years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an
elderly woman and Jina can t stop thinking about the promise she
made to help find her brother. Expertly translated from the Korean
by the award-winning translator Janet Hong, The Waiting is the
devastating followup to Gendry-Kim s Grass, which appeared on
best-of-the-year lists from The New York Times, The Guardian,
Library Journal, and more.
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Artist (Paperback)
Yeong-Shin Ma; Translated by Janet Hong
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R1,078
Discovery Miles 10 780
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The satirical saga of three artists seeking recognition. But there
can be only one Artist. A novelist, single, forty-four years old. A
painter, divorced, forty-six years old. A musician, single,
forty-two years old. On the outer limits of relevancy in an arts
culture that celebrates youth, these three men make up the artist
group Arcade. Caught in circular arguments about what makes real
art and concerned about the vapid interests of their younger
contemporaries, none of them are reaping the benefits of success.
But there s always another chance to make it. When it comes time,
out of the three, who will emerge as an acclaimed artist? More
important, when one artist s star rises, will he leave the rest
behind? Following Yeong-shin Ma s hit manhwa, Moms, this plunge
into artistic friendships is as hilarious and infuriating as it is
real. With absurdist style and off-beat humour, Artist
simultaneously caricatures and complicates the figure of the
artist. The friendships between the three are impassioned and
mercurial, resulting in conflicts about fashion choices, squabbles
with foreign children, and changes in one another's artistic
fortunes for better and worse. As the story progresses we see the
ways that recognition or lack thereof moulds each character s
outlook, whether they will be changed by the scene or end up
changing it to fit their ideals.
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Every Year
Jung-Eun Hwang; Translated by Janet Hong
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R460
R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
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Moms (Paperback)
Yeong-Shin Ma, Janet Hong
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R673
Discovery Miles 6 730
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Lee Soyeon, Myeong-ok, and Yeonjeong are all mothers in their
mid-fifties. And they ve had it. They can no longer bear the dead
weight of their partners or the endless grind of menial jobs where
their bosses control everything, down to how much water they can
drink. Although Lee Soyeon divorced her husband years ago after his
gambling drove their family into bankruptcy, she finds herself in
another tired and dishonest decade-long relationship with Jongseok,
a slimy waiter at a nightclub. Meanwhile, Myeong-ok is having an
illicit affair with a younger man, and Yeonjeong, whose husband
suffers from erectile dysfunction, has her eye on an acquaintance
from the gym. Bored with conventional romantic dalliances, these
women embrace outrageous sexual adventures and mishaps, ending up
in nightclubs, motels, and even the occasional back-alley brawl.
With this boisterous and darkly funny manhwa, Yeong-shin Ma defies
the norms of the traditional Korean family narrative, offering
instead the refreshingly honest and unfiltered story of a group of
middle-aged moms who yearn for something more than what the
mediocre men in their lives can provide. Despite their
less-than-desirable jobs, salaries, husbands, and boyfriends, these
women brazenly bulldoze their way through life with the sexual
vulnerability and lust typically attributed to twenty-somethings.
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