Fiction - World Literature - Korea

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to...

Author: Park SeolyeonPublisher: HarperviaPublished: 06/23/2026Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.53dISBN: 9780063388277About the AuthorSeolyeon, Park: - Born in 1989, Park Seolyeon made her debut winning the Silcheon Munhak New Writers Prize in 2015 for her short story "Mickey Mouse Club." Her...

"Korean author Park Seolyeon's English-language debut succeeds in ways no other recent novel has: in portraying the anxiety-riddled realities of coming of age in our present moment through an unexpected and fantastical lens."--The Rumpus.comA millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit...

A darkly comic and compelling satire of the art world from the author of The Disaster Tourist. An Yiji's career had been stalling for some time when a representative of the illustrious Robert Foundation offers her a spot on their all-expenses-paid artist residency in...

"Postmodernism is alive and well in Kyung-Ran Jo's latest . . . Blowfish is a book to chew on and savor, a deft delve into the intricacies of love and art."--Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti,...

A gripping and incisive psychological game-show drama from one of the biggest stars in Korean fiction, author of million-copy bestseller The Dallergut Dream Department Store. Eight unsuspecting people receive an invitation to participate in a new reality show called Break Room. But what starts...

From the writer and translator duo of A Magical Girl Retires, a powerful historical novel about labour activism in Japanese-occupied Korea.Set against the backdrop of Japanese-occupied Korea, Capitalists Must Starve follows a sharp-tongued, big-hearted heroine who dares to love, rebel, and carve out space...

From the bestselling author of Almond, The Devil Wears Prada meets The Office in this witty, humane, and ultimately transformative story of a group of young workers who rebel against the status quo.Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her...

From the bestselling author of Almond, The Devil Wears Prada meets The Office in this witty, humane, and ultimately transformative story of a group of young workers who rebel against the status quo, now available in a convenient pocket-sized portable Nomad Edition.Jihye is an...

A WIRED "BOOK YOU NEED TO READ" - For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's...

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature--surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite. Pre-order...

Winner of the 2023 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Manuel Muñoz. Imagine a space where cities and municipalities are delineated only by letters. A place in flux, a freewheeling confluence that does not commit to being American, Korea, or even Korean...

The bonds between six women undergoing IVF are tested when one announces an unexpected birth in this absorbing, candid novel about what women endure to become mothers "Already a feminist sensation in South Korea, it's candid, sharp and quietly devastating. And at just over...

Four obsessed women kidnap a K-Pop idol with unexpected and devastating results in this chilling, thought-provoking literary thriller that blends the dark impulsions of Butter with the ratcheting tension of Stephen King's Misery.Four wildly different women are consumed by Yosep, a dreamy twenty-one-year-old K-pop...

Four obsessed women kidnap a K-Pop idol with unexpected and devastating results in this chilling, thought-provoking literary thriller that blends the dark impulsions of Butter with the ratcheting tension of Stephen King's Misery.Four wildly different women are consumed by Yosep, a dreamy twenty-one-year-old K-pop...

A word-of-mouth phenomenon turned best-selling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically daring novel that reveals how love and money shape, wound, and consume us."A feast for the literary senses."--Anton Hur, Judge of the International Booker PrizeOn an ordinary afternoon, a woman...

A delightful collection of stories of everyday folk, from a country that now brings K-Pop culture into the eyes and ears of the world. Organized into four sections - Love, Marriage & Family, Powerful Spirits & Mystical Realms, The Magical & the Supernatural, Tales...

Fifty-five folktales offer a fascinating window into the Korean world. Told with wit and pathos, this lively collection of Korean fables features the ever-iconic tiger, the humble woodcutter, clueless brides, clever talking rabbits, mischievous mice and other engaging characters in situations where folly, wisdom,...

This sweeping debut novel set in a unified Korea tells the story of three estranged siblings--two human, one robot--as they collide against the backdrop of a murder investigation to settle old scores and make sense of their shattered childhood. "I once had a family....

This sweeping debut novel set in a unified Korea tells the story of three estranged siblings--two human, one robot--as they collide against the backdrop of a murder investigation to settle old scores and make sense of their shattered childhood. "I once had a family....