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Han Kang was born in South Korea and received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Vegetarian explores the body, violence and the consequences of refusing conformity. Han Kang and Hwang Sok-yong return to historical violence and its marks on individual lives. Cho Nam-joo, Choi Eunyoung and Shin Kyung-sook offer further routes through women's work, friendship and family.
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Yeong-hye’s decision to stop eating meat brings her into conflict with her family and social expectations.
Original title: 채식주의자 (Chaesikjuuija)
W.A.B. · 2024
Translated by Justyna Najbar-Miller i Jeong In Choi
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A boy’s death during the Gwangju uprising reverberates through the voices of survivors, family and witnesses.
An emigrant’s return to his village awakens memories of wartime violence between Christians and Communists.
The story of two schoolgirls turns into an unsettling inquiry into violence and narrative power.
A mother’s disappearance at a Seoul subway station forces her family to reconstruct her overlooked life.
An enigmatic narrator connects lonely lives in Seoul in a story of death, art and alienation.
An ordinary Korean woman’s life exposes everyday discrimination from school to motherhood and work.
Stories follow women’s friendships and family relationships shaped by history, distance and silence.
A grotesque saga of women, enterprise and spectacular violence unfolds in a changing Korea.
A former actress moves through a sweltering city where people, dreams and events begin to merge.
Two workers in an electronics market threatened with demolition grow close as people’s shadows begin to rise.
A woman who has lost her voice and a teacher losing his sight find connection through loss.
White objects prompt reflections on a dead sister, mourning and life.
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