Un Su Kim: 벗 캐비닛 (The Cabinet)
The latest addition to my website is Un Su Kim's 벗 캐비닛 (The Cabinet). This is a wildly inventive novel, telling of Deok-geun Kong, a South Korean office worker, who…
The latest addition to my website is Un Su Kim's 벗 캐비닛 (The Cabinet). This is a wildly inventive novel, telling of Deok-geun Kong, a South Korean office worker, who…
The latest addition to my website is Choi Jin-young's 해가 지는 곳으로 (To the Warm Horizon). This is the first full-blown pandemic novel I have read since covid but do…
The latest addition to my website is Yun Ko-eun's 밤의 여행자들 (The Disaster Tourist). Yona works for Jungle, a Korean disaster tourism company. When she has problems at work with…
The latest addition to my website is Hye Young-Pyun's 선의 법칙 (The Law of Lines). This is another first-class novel from the South Korean writer. It tells the tales of…
The latest addition to my website is Kim Sagwa's 나b책 (b, Book and Me). The novel tells the story of three Korean misfits, b, Book and Rang (the me of…
The latest addition to my website is Hwang Sok-yong's 해질무렵 (At Dusk). This is a superb book about an architect who, though successful, is a bit lost in his life,…
The latest addition to my website is Hye Young-Pyun's 재와 빨강 (City of Ash and Red). This a grim Kafkaesque story about an unnamed man from an unnamed country, who…
The latest addition to my website is Yi Mun-Yol's 아우와의만남 (An Appointment with My Brother; later: Meeting with My Brother), a new translation of a book that was previously published…
The latest addition to my website is Hwang Jungeun's 百의 그림자 (One Hundred Shadows). This is a very original work, which has had considerable success in South Korea, about very…
The latest addition to my website is Han Kang's 소년이 온다 (Human Acts). This novel concerns the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980 against the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan. Han…