Korean Literature

분실물 가게 주인, 햐쿠의 왼쪽 눈에는 다른 사람에게 보이지 않는 것들이 보인다?! 자신의 인형을 도둑맞은 인형사 사콘지의 의뢰부터 시작해서 머리 없는 도깨비의 방문, 매일 밤 반복되는 꿈 때문에 괴로운 남자, 악마로 태어난 소녀, 꼬마 흰여우 요괴 마시로와의 우당탕탕 합동 작전까지……. 잠시도 눈을 뗄 수 없는 흥미진진한 사건들로 다시 돌아온 2권!

Based on a true story. As the Korean War threatens to ignite a global nuclear inferno, the fate of the free world rests on a razor's edge, while on the home front, two towering American titans – the resolute President Truman and the legendary General MacArthur – engage in a perilous battle of wills that could either avert Armageddon or tear the nation apart.

His tour is over, but the war rages on for Dickie, one of the forever-haunted veterans who gave up his soul during the Forgotten War. Here is a glimpse of his story, of the battleground he can never leave. Only death can conclude his final objective: closure, and peace. Join him on his road, the Korean Road, as he battles horrors he carries and those that he meets along the way.

Kate Daniels is a co-pilot aboard the space shuttle Liberty. Liberty is to deploy a space defense system satellite created with the latest American technology. The shuttle crash-lands in the uncharted, mountainous frontier between North Korea and China. As the ranking able-bodied officer, Kate takes charge, evacuating the crew from the crash site. A mountain warlord captures the Liberty's crew, intending to sell the shuttle and its cargo to the highest bidder. On the world stage, this crisis rapidly escalates. The North Koreans forbid an American search and rescue operation, sending their own troops into the region instead.

North Korea has achieved a breakthrough with nuclear warheads and is about to arm their strategic missiles - weapons that could set the world ablaze. The Echo Six unit commander, Abe Talley, is ordered to take his men across the 38th Parallel. Their mission is to locate and destroy the nukes, as well as their creators. They must enter the heart of the most secretive, repressive, and brutal nation on Earth - and somehow find a way back.

Peace has returned to the Pacific after the Taiwan War, but it doesn’t last. The Korean peninsula erupts in fire and blood, drawing America into a fresh conflict that sees use of some of the world’s deadliest weapons. In the aftermath, Navy fighter pilot Jack Knapp tells a news reporter about his experiences fighting the Korean People’s Army (KPA) and how he helped prevent a nuclear attack that could have destroyed an American city.

Couture gowns, press parties, international travel. Rachel Kim is at the top of her game. Girls Forever is now the number-one K-pop group in the world, and her fame skyrockets after her viral airport styling attracts the attention of fashion’s biggest names. Her life’s a swirl of technicolor glamour and adoring fans. Rachel can’t imagine shining any brighter.

Mina is a professional pickpocket and thief for a huge South Korean conglomerate (chaebol) into which she was born. Having brought great shame to the chaebol as a teenager, she is obligated to work as a criminal for them. This chaebol is also a crime syndicate. She desperately wants out of her dangerous and depressing existence. She sees a ray of hope in the character of Sienna who is the complete opposite to her. She becomes obsessed with Sienna to the point she complicates things on a truly horrific scale.

Jonas Stuyvesant's silver-spoon upbringing has not prepared him for the horrors of war. When Communist North Korea launches a surprise invasion of the South, Jonas finds himself leading his platoon against a well-trained, battle-hardened army. Soviet-made tanks break through the American lines. These are not the pitchfork-wielding peasants he expected. What should have been an easy victory turns into a devastating rout. Jonas and his men begin their retreat down the Peninsula, fighting a rear-guard action.

A boy of just six years old, Austin Roberts found himself perpetually in the way at the post-funeral gathering of his great uncle Jack. Frustrated and alone, he wandered out onto the front porch to find his great uncle Cat, Jack's brother, sitting alone, an old album on his lap. Oblivious to the world around them, the two begin an unlikely conversation and together embark on a journey that stretches almost seven decades in length.

The Korean Spirit: Poems is a collection of poems that captures the hopes and the fears of ethnic Koreans around the world. Korean anxiety, heightened by the inclusion of North Korea as an axis of evil power impeding the Korean aspiration for a united Korea, has created a search for harmony among Korean individuals and Korean groups. Many of the poems in this collection express the collectively, although often privately, shared sentiment of the Korean people regarding global politics and international relations.

어느 날 우연히 류현의 품 안으로 날아들다. 검댕 묻은 외로운 별이 천사가 되다.

It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. The bit in his teeth, Douglas MacArthur surges across the 38th parallel toward the Yalu River, only to encounter the Chinese in full force, who drive him back in turn.

In a Seoul slum marked for demolition, residents’ shadows have begun to rise. No one knows how or why—but, they warn each other, do not follow your shadow if it wanders away. Employees of a small electronics repair shop, Eungyo and Mujae can only watch their tight-knit community begin to fade as the landscape of their lives is torn apart, building by building. Their growing connection with one another provides solace, but against an uncaring ruling class and the inevitability of the rising shadows, their relationship may not be enough.

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2016년 4월 런던 도서전에서 가장 큰 주목을 받은 소설 『봉제인형 살인사건』은 다니엘 콜의 데뷔작으로서 영국, 미국, 독일, 일본을 포함한 32개국에서 출간되었고, 치열한 경쟁 끝에 『데렐 가족』을 히트시킨 ITV社가 TV판권을 획득했다. 『봉제인형 살인사건』은 생동감 있는 묘사, 입체적인 캐릭터, 치밀하고 절묘한 플롯, 반전의 반전을 거듭하는 긴장감 넘치는 구성으로 첫 문장에서부터 마지막 문장까지 단숨에 읽게 만드는 흡입력을 가지고 있다. 추리스릴러 소설의 대가의 반열에 오른 레이첼 애보트나 M. J. 알리지 같은 작가들도 다니엘 콜의 등단을 새로운 천재 작가의 탄생이라며 치켜세웠다. 신체의 여섯 부위를 바늘과 실로 꿰매 이어 붙인 살인사건이라는 섬뜩한 소재를 다루면서도 진정한 정의가 무엇인지에 대해 생각하게 만드는 작품이다.

'인간의 내기'에 진 불멸의 홍제, 인간 세상에서 단, 하나의 감동을 길어올리다! 불멸의 생에 깃든 죽음의 미학과 영생에 관한 철학적 사색. 무한의 생과 유한의 생이 벌이는 판타지 스릴러. 도깨비들의 잔치에 불려온 무녀는 도깨비 수장인 홍제의 오만함을 꺾기 위해 '인간의 내기'를 제안한다. 하늘과 인간을 잇는 무녀의 손에 술잔을 들린 것에 대한 복수를 하기 위해서다. 귀설과 무녀와 수장 홍제 사이를 맴도는 갈등이 빚어낸 끝을 알 수 없는 흥미진진한 도깨비들의 잔치에 끼어든 인간의 내기.

SF 그랜드 마스터 아서 C. 클라크가 단독으로 집필한 마지막 작품 서기 2110년, 인류는 발달한 과학기술 덕분에 의식주에 대한 걱정은 물론 전쟁과 내분까지 해소하며 새로운 황금기에 접어든다.

소설집의 처음을 여는 「그들을 정원에 남겨두었다」에서 의사인 '나'는 소설가이기도 하다. 이시진은 내가 담당하고 있는 식물인간 상태의 환자인데, 그는 과거에 커밍아웃하면서 부인과 딸을 떠났었다. 10여 년을 함께한 그의 동성 연인은 병원에 찾아왔지만 어떤 관계도 인정받지 못한 채, 이시진의 가족들에게 쫓겨나야 했다. 한편 나의 대학 동기인 수연은 그 상황을 텍스트로 풀어내며 생활동반자법 제정이라는 공론을 이끌어내려 하지만, 그 과정에서 사실을 과장하고 각색한다. 나는 수연에게 전화를 걸어 그 글은 픽션이 아니라고, 쓰기 전에는 최소한 동의는 구했어야 했다고 비판하지만, 되레 수연이 되받아친다.

김희진 작가의 다섯 번째 장편소설 『얼마나 이상하든』. 작가는 『옷의 시간들』 『양파의 습관』 『두 방문객』 등을 통해 이별로 인한 상실과 결핍, 그럼에도 불구하고 현재를 살아갈 수 있게 하는 힘인 '사람과 사람 사이의 관계'에 대해 꾸준히 조명해왔다. 신작 『얼마나 이상하든』에서는 더욱 깊이 있고 생동감 넘치게 다양한 삶과 관계의 형태를 그려낸다.