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Blending the novel and the short story format, Tower satirically examines modern life through six interconnected stories that all take place in a 674-story skyscraper. Bae Myung-hoon is one of
Zadie Smith is a critically acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and playwright, whose work includes the novel White Teeth, winner of the Guardian First Book Prize, and On Beauty, winner of
A translated collection of short stories from one of Korea's most renowned writers, Pak Kyongni, Age of Doubt explores the postwar Korea of the 50s and 60s. A time of chaos, uncertainty, poverty, and existential doubt, postwar Korea is a far cry from the sleek and modern Korea that is today hailed as the birthplace
This Delve explores two texts that are modern retellings of Korean folklore. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea is a retelling of Simcheongga, one of the five surviving stories of the Korean pansori storytelling tradition. The original story takes place in the Joseon Dynasty and deals with a daughter (Shimcheong) who sacrifices herself for
Han Kang recently made history by becoming the first Korean and first Asian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature. As a writer, Han Kang is preoccupied with questions of violence. How and why are humans so violent to one another? And what does it mean to belong to the human species amidst
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