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“kim chi won”

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  • The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women

    by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton, Pak Wan-So, Kim Chi-Won, O Chong-hui, Kong Son-ok, So Yong-un, Han Yujoo, Kim Sagwa, Ch’on Un-yong, Kim Ae-ran ...
    These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s–2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us into the homes, families, lives and psyches of Korean women, men, and children.In the earliest of the stories, Pak Wan-so, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

    A Novel

    by Lisa See ...
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ... Read more

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  • What Belongs to You

    A Novel

    by Garth Greenwell ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction • A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction • A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize • A New York Times ... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Woman Upstairs

    by Claire Messud ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this New York Times bestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own.**A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • A Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year • A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book • A Huffington Post Best Book • A Boston Globe ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Where the Past Begins

    Memory and Imagination

    by Amy Tan ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS American Masters "Unintended Memoir."In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals the ways that our memories and personal experiences can inform our creative work. Drawing on her vivid ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

    by Sasa Stanisic ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    "A brilliant debut novel" about a young Bosnian War refugee who finds the secret to survival in language and stories ( Los Angeles Times).For Aleksandar Krsmanović, Grandpa Slavko's stories endow life in Višegrad with a kaleidoscopic brilliance. Neighbors, friends, and family past and present take on a mythic quality; the River Drina courses through town like the pulse of life itself. So when his ... Read more

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  • I'll Be Right There

    A Novel

    by Kyung-Sook Shin ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    **“A love story between friends. It is so well written. [Kyung-sook Shin] has this use of language that is just beautiful and poetic. It’s a great book if you’re looking to escape.” —Chelsea Handler, #1 New York Times bestselling authorHow friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurd**Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Time Whispers

    by Alati Asmu ...
    The book won the &quote;Horse Award&quote; for the 11th National Minority Literature Creation Novel Award. For contemporary Uighur literature, Alati Asmu is undoubtedly one of the writers with modern meaning. His way of thinking, writing technique, narrative method and text structure are all ahead of time. In this novel, the author tells us a story about forgiveness in poetic language. Asha, the ... Read more

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  • Notes of a Crocodile

    by Qiu Miaojin ...
    Translated by Bonnie Huie ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZEThe English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award.An NYRB Classics OriginalSet in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, ... Read more

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  • Everything Belongs to Us

    A Novel

    by Yoojin Grace Wuertz ...
    Two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s “economic miracle” in a striking debut novel for readers of Anthony Marra and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie.Seoul, 1978. At South Korea’s top university, the nation’s best and brightest compete to join the professional elite of an authoritarian regime. Success could lead to a life of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Best European Fiction 2013

    by John Banville ...
    Series series Best European Fiction
    2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing! ... Read more

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  • No One Writes Back

    by Eunjin Jang ...
    Translated by Yewon Jung ...
    Series Book 10 - Library of Korean Literature
    Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel.No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or even invent nicknames for them—he assigns them ... Read more

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