Book 9781739822545

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bae, Myung-hoon

Science Fiction

Honford Star

Book 9781915829016

Bora Chung

The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

Literature & Fiction

Yewon Jung

Literary

Cannibals

Shin'ya Tanaka

Astral Season, Beastly Season is the debut novel by Japanese writer Tahi Saihate. This thrilling book is a meditation on belonging, the objectification of young popstars, and teenage alienation.\nThe story follows Morishita and Yamashiro, two high-school boys approaching the age in life when they must choose what kind of people they want to be. When their favourite J-pop idol kills and dismembers her boyfriend, Morishita and Yamashiro unite to convince the police that their idol's act was in fact by them.

Astral Season Beastly Season

Tahi Saihate

Contemporary

Tower is a series of interconnected stories set in Beanstalk, a 674-story skyscraper and sovereign nation. Each story deals with how citizens living in the hypermodern high-rise deal with various influences of power in their lives: a group of researchers have to tell their boss that a major powerbroker is a dog, a woman uses the power of the internet to rescue a downed fighter pilot abandoned by the government, and an out-of-towner finds himself in charge of training a gentle elephant to break up protests. Bae explores the forces that shape modern life with wit and a sly wink at the reader.

Tower

About the Author\nChoi Jin-young was born on a snowy day in Seoul in 1981 and moved around often during her childhood. She made her literary debut in 2006 and has won various awards including the 15th Hankyoreh Literature Prize.\nSoje is the translator of Lee Hyemi's Unexpected Vanilla (Tilted Axis Press), Lee Soho s Catcalling (Open Letter Books). They also make chogwa, a quarterly e-zine featuring one Korean poem and multiple English translations.\nA group of Koreans are making their way across a disease ravaged landscape--but to what end?\nTo the Warm Horizon shows how in a post-apocalyptic world, humans will still seek purpose, kinship, and even intimacy. Focusing on two young women, Jina and Dori, who find love against all odds, Choi Jin-young creates a dystopia where people are trying to find direction after having their worlds turned upside down.\nLucidly translated from the Korean by Soje, this thoughtful yet gripping novel takes the reader on a journey through how people adjust, or fail to adjust, to catastrophe.

To the Warm Horizon

Soje

Choi, Jin Young

Victims all describe hearing a voice before they die gruesomely. Sometimes it's singing an old Taiwanese song, sometimes it's in Japanese, and sometimes it's an anguished call for help from a loved one. Can Wu Shih-sheng, a degenerate taxi driver in Taipei, hunt down the source of the voice that killed his wife before he becomes the next victim?\nWhisper is a plot-driven Taiwanese horror story. As well as being a chilling read, Chang Yu\-Ko cleverly combines Taiwanese folklore, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and the long-term mistreatment of the country's aboriginal people into a tale of how the past can still kill.

Whisper

Chang Yu-Ko

Roddy Flagg

Genre Fiction

About the Author\nBora Chung has written three novels and three collections of short stories. She has an MA in Russian and East European area studies from Yale University and a PhD in Slavic literature from Indiana University. She currently teaches Russian language and literature and science fiction studies at Yonsei University and translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean.\nAnton Hur was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won a PEN Translates award for Kang Kyeong-ae's The Underground Village. He lives in Seoul.\nWinner of a PEN/Heim Grant.\nCursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung.\nBlurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.\nAnton Hur's translation skilfully captures the way Chung's prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous.

Cursed Bunny

Chung, Bora

Kim Tongin (1900-1951) is one of Korea's earliest and most respected modern writers whose naturalist fiction brilliantly depicts Korean life during a period of profound social change. Namesake of the prestigious Dong-in Literary Award, Kim Tongin's succinct writing style can still inspire readers and provide insight into early 20th century Korea over 60 years after his death. Finally, a volume of Kim Tongin's short stories, most of them previously untranslated, is available to readers of English. Grace Jung is a writer, translator and filmmaker from New York. She is the author of Deli Ideology and producer of the feature documentary A-Town Boyz. She is currently a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Los Angeles, California. She is a former Fulbright scholar. Youngmin Kwon is a professor of Korean literature at Seoul National University and former dean of the College of Humanities. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written and edited numerous volumes of literary history, literary criticism and reference works on modern Korean literature, and is the current president of the International Association of Comparative Korean Studies.

Sweet Potato: Collected Short Stories by Kim Tongin

Tongin, Kim

Short Stories & Anthologies

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