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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 328 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A funny and incisive Korean family coming-of-age novel in stories about a 12-year-old boy who moves with his mother and sister from Korea to work at their father's Asian gift shop in a New Jersey strip mall-and the growing pains that ensue
You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable. Your mother isn't exactly happy, either. You're seeing your father...
2) The apology
Author
Language
English
Description
"In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come. Hak Jeonga has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to preserve the reputations of her loved ones. How could she have...
3) Bee-bim bop!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A child, eager for a favorite meal, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a late 1990s North Korea, a younger Inspector O is working Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate and as the wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances, but as Inspector O investigates, he discovers that the woman's death could lead to a larger conspiracy.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ordered out of retirement to Pyongyang to cover up a crime of passion committed by the young leader of a transitional government vital to a tenuous peace agreement between the two Koreas, Inspector O finds his life threatened when the case tests his loyalties.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A "story of the mysteries, truths, and deceptions that follow the odyssey of Ahn Gilmo, a young math savant, as he escapes from the most isolated country in the world and searches for the only family he has left"--Amazon.com.
An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse. Ahn GilƯmo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories,...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Judy Lee's life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. She's divorced, she's broke, and her dreams of being a painter have fallen by the wayside. Her co-worker Roger might be a member of the Yakuza gang, but he's also the only person who's asked her on a date in the last year.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, the stories presented in "Drifting House" illuminate a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the...
11) Skin deep
Author
Series
Siobhan O'Brien mystery volume 1
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but a more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her. Easing into middle age, Siobhan would generally rather have a glazed donut than a romance, but when an old friend asks Siobhan to find her daughter who has disappeared from her dorm, the rookie private detective's search begins...
12) Ocean's Godori
Author
Publisher
Hillman Grad Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission went awry and she earned a reputation for being a little...
13) Mater 2-10
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 474 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, MATER 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a powerful account that captures a nation's longing for a rail line to reconnect North and South, a magical-realist novel that depicts the...
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