A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and…
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness is a stark and lyrical work that follows a teen-aged girl who has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory while struggling to achieve her dream of finishing school and becoming a writer. Shin sets the this complex and nuanced coming of age story against the backdrop of…
Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history. Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mom brilliantly images the life of…
An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mom; centering on a woman’s efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held family secrets. Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home in the countryside to take care of…
When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mother?
빌 클린턴의 ‘취임사’, 마틴 루터 킹의 ‘나에게는 꿈이 있습니다’, 간디의 ‘비폭력 비협력 운동’ 등 명문장으로 알려진 20개 글을 통해 영문을 공부하는 책이다. 미국의 정신과 문화를 드러내는 글들을 모아, 미국 영어의 문법 체계와 어휘를 아는 것뿐만 아니라 살아있는 영어를 맛보게 해준다. 이 책의 구성상의 특징은 직독직해의 방식을 취하고 있다는 점이다. 원문과 중요 단어가 정리되어 있다는 점에서는…