No One Writes Back

Author	Hwang Jungeun
ISBN	1911284029

An oblique, hard-edged novel tinged with offbeat fantasy, One Hundred Shadows is set in a slum electronics market in central Seoul – an area earmarked for demolition in a city better known for its shiny skyscrapers and slick pop videos. Here, the awkward, tentative relationship between Eungyo and...

Author	Ki-ho Lee
ISBN	1564789195

Emerging from the allegorical Institution—a brutal place where frequent illogical and inexplicable beatings plague the inhabitants—the narrator and Si-bong take refuge at the home of a foul-mouthed alcoholic prostitute (Si-bong’s sister) and her companion known only as the man with the...

Author	Un-su Kim
ISBN	1925603768

The important thing is not who pulls the trigger but who’s behind the person who pulls the trigger—the plotters, the masterminds working in the shadows. Raised by Old Raccoon in The Library of Dogs, Reseng has always been surrounded by plots to kill—and by books that no one ever reads. In Seoul’s...

Author	Park Wansuh
ISBN	0231148984

Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression,...

Author	Han Kang
ISBN	1101906723

From 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 Dong-ho is shockingly killed.

The...

Author	Hwang Sok-yong
ISBN	1925228991

Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea’s glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 13-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father’s internment in a government...