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9781476748054 | Touchstone Books, May 3, 2016, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Equal parts muckraking novel, transnational love story, and socially engaged panorama, Cho Chongnae’s The Human Jungle portrays China on the verge of becoming the world’s dominant economic force.Against a backdrop of rapidly morphing urban landscapes, readers meet migrant workers, Korean manufacturers out to save a few bucks, high-flying venture capitalists, street thugs, and shakedown artists...read more
By Cho Chongnae, Bruce Fulton (trans) and Ju-Chan Fulton (trans)

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9781634059107 | Chin Music Pr, May 24, 2016, cover price $16.50 | About this edition: Equal parts muckraking novel, transnational love story, and socially engaged panorama, Cho Chongnae’s The Human Jungle portrays China on the verge of becoming the world’s dominant economic force.

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By Minsoo Kang (trans)

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9780143107699 | Penguin Classics, March 15, 2016, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: "Fascinating, surreal, gorgeously written, and like nothing you’ve ever read before, Not Dark Yet is the book we all need to read right now. It is art about science, climate change, and activism, and it vitally explores how we as people deal with a world that is transforming in terrifying ways...read more

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9781937512354 | Two Dollar Radio Movement, December 1, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: "Fascinating, surreal, gorgeously written, and like nothing you’ve ever read before, Not Dark Yet is the book we all need to read right now.

Product Description: A look inside the hidden world of Korean women by one of that country's best-known feminist writers

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9781935210764 | White Pine Pr, June 14, 2016, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A look inside the hidden world of Korean women by one of that country's best-known feminist writers
9781877727931 | White Pine Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Forty-year-old In-mo, a movie director who's been jobless for the past decade decides to move in with his widowed mother. His older brother, with five criminal convictions, has already moved back. Then younger sister Mi-yeon arrives with her bratty, rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter...read more
By Kyoung-lee Park (trans)

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9781935210672 | Italian edition edition (White Pine Pr, April 7, 2015), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Forty-year-old In-mo, a movie director who's been jobless for the past decade decides to move in with his widowed mother.

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By Bruce Fulton (trans), Ju-Chan Fulton (trans) and Hailji

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9781628970654 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 14, 2014, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Park Min-gyu has been celebrated and condemned for his attacks upon what he perceives as the humorlessness of contemporary Korean literature. Pavane for a Dead Princess is his attack upon the beauty-fetish that reigns over popular culture, detailing the relationship between a man with matinee-idol good looks and "the ugliest woman of the century...read more

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9781628970661 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 14, 2014, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Park Min-gyu has been celebrated and condemned for his attacks upon what he perceives as the humorlessness of contemporary Korean literature.

By Kim Seong-kon (trans)

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9781628970678 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 14, 2014, cover price $14.95

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By Sora Kim-russell (trans)

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9781476730455 | Simon & Schuster, July 1, 2014, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author’s experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides...read more

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9781609805074 | Seven Stories Pr, April 29, 2014, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author’s experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides.

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Product Description: The Korean Charlotte's WebMore than 2 million copies sold   This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her own...read more
By Sun-mi Hwang, Chi-young Kim (trans) and Nomoco (illustrator)

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9780143123200 | Penguin USA, November 26, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Korean Charlotte's WebMore than 2 million copies sold   This is the story of a hen named Sprout.

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Product Description: A major, never before translated novel by the author of "Muj?ng / The Heartless"--often called the first modern Korean novel--"The Soil" tells the story of an idealist dedicating his life to helping the inhabitants of the rural community in which he was raised...read more
By Sun-ae Hwang (trans)

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9781564789112, titled "The Soil" | Dalkey Archive Pr, November 16, 2013, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A major, never before translated novel by the author of "Muj?

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Product Description: As South Korea violently changed from a military dictatorship to a democratic state, an idealistic activist and a brazen painter shared a brief love affair that would impact the rest of their lives. Drifting to an old house in the countryside where they once sought refuge, Hyun Woo finds Yoon Hee's letters, diaries, and paintings that document the extraordinary life of the woman he loved and lost...read more

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9781583228364 | Seven Stories Pr, June 1, 2009, cover price $35.00
9781583228722 | Seven Stories Pr, April 1, 2009, cover price $35.00

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9781609804060, titled "The Old Garden" | Reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, August 28, 2012), cover price $18.95 | also contains The Old Garden | About this edition: As South Korea violently changed from a military dictatorship to a democratic state, an idealistic activist and a brazen painter shared a brief love affair that would impact the rest of their lives.

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Product Description: As South Korea violently changed from a military dictatorship to a democratic state, an idealistic activist and a brazen painter shared a brief love affair that would impact the rest of their lives. Drifting to an old house in the countryside where they once sought refuge, Hyun Woo finds Yoon Hee's letters, diaries, and paintings that document the extraordinary life of the woman he loved and lost...read more

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9781583228999 | Seven Stories Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew.

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9781609804060 | Reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, August 28, 2012), cover price $18.95 | also contains Old Garden | About this edition: As South Korea violently changed from a military dictatorship to a democratic state, an idealistic activist and a brazen painter shared a brief love affair that would impact the rest of their lives.

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Product Description: In this translation of a highly acclaimed Korean novel, a journalist gets assigned the biography of Bak Bu-kil, a well-known novelist, and as he tries to piece together fragments of Bak’s life, he realizes that the novelist's past hides a painful secret...read more

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9788492979127 | Italian edition edition (Ediciones Barataria, May 9, 2012), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: In this translation of a highly acclaimed Korean novel, a journalist gets assigned the biography of Bak Bu-kil, a well-known novelist, and as he tries to piece together fragments of Bak’s life, he realizes that the novelist's past hides a painful secret.

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Product Description: La novela ganadora del Man Asian Prize 2011. El mayor éxito de la literatura coreana.Park So-nyo se ha perdido en la bulliciosa estación central de Seúl cuando iba a visitar a sus hijos a la ciudad. Un instante de distracción de su marido y la gran aglomeración allí reunida fueron suficientes para que la pareja se separara y fuera incapaz de volver a encontrarse...read more

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9788499894881 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, April 12, 2012), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: La novela ganadora del Man Asian Prize 2011.
9788425346255 | Italian edition edition (Grijalbo Mondadori, April 3, 2011), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: La novela ganadora del Man Asian Prize 2011.

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Product Description: "Originally published in slightly different form in South Korea as "Omma rul put'ak hae" by Changbi Publishers, Paju-si Kyonggi-do, in 2008."--T.p. verso.
By Chi-young Kim (trans)

Miscellaneous:

9780307359216 | Random House of Canada Ltd, April 5, 2011, cover price $25.95

Library:

9781611730869 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, May 1, 2011), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: "Originally published in slightly different form in South Korea as "Omma rul put'ak hae" by Changbi Publishers, Paju-si Kyonggi-do, in 2008.

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By Chi-young Kim (trans)

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9780151015450 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, September 28, 2010), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: A classic revolutionary novel of the 1930s and the first complete work written by a woman before the Korean War to be published in English, From Wonso Pond transforms the love triangle between three protagonists into a revealing portrait of the living conditions that led to modern Korea, both North and South...read more

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9781558616011, titled "From Wonso Pond: A Korean Novel" | Feminist Pr, October 1, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A classic revolutionary novel of the 1930s and the first complete work written by a woman before the Korean War to be published in English, From Wonso Pond transforms the love triangle between three protagonists into a revealing portrait of the living conditions that led to modern Korea, both North and South.

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By Bruce Fulton (editor), Ju-Chan Fulton (editor) and Marshall R. Pihl (editor)

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9780765618108 | Expanded edition (East Gate Book, July 31, 2007), cover price $47.95

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Amid the emotional desolation and stark despair of Seoul, Korea, the unnamed narrator assists the lost and hurting find an escape through peaceful suicide, and two brothers are torn by their mutual love for the same woman, in a collection of interwoven stories set against the backdrop of contemporary Korea. Original.

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9780156030809 | Italian edition edition (Mariner Books, July 2, 2007), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An unnamed narrator assists the lost and hurting find an escape through peaceful suicide, and two brothers are torn by their mutual love for the same woman, in a collection of interwoven stories set against the backdrop of contemporary Korea.

Miscellaneous:

9780547540535 | Houghton Mifflin, July 2, 2007, cover price $12.00

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Product Description: An extraordinary, highly acclaimed novel from Korea, revealing how the conflict of the secular and the divine manifests in the real world. Bak Bugil's father is a genius. Everyone in the village expects him to pass the civil service examination and become a judge, but he hasn't been seen since he left to study in Seoul...read more

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9780720612592 | Italian edition edition (Peter Owen Ltd, March 15, 2006), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An extraordinary, highly acclaimed novel from Korea, revealing how the conflict of the secular and the divine manifests in the real world.

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