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Serafina and the Black Cloak

Robert Beatty · 2015

XOXO

Axie Oh · 2021

Reveries of a Bachelor

IK Marvel · 2020

Flowers of Mold

Sŏng-nan Ha · 2019

Concerning My Daughter

Kim Hye-jin · 2022

Saha

Nam-ju Cho · 2023

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Cho Nam-joo · 2020

Blood Sisters

Kim Yideum · 2019

Winter in Sokcho

Elisa Shua Dusapin · 2021

The Pachinko Parlor

Elisa Shua Dusapin · 2022

Almond

Won-pyung Sohn · 2020

People from My Neighborhood

Hiromi Kawakami · 2021

Human Acts

Han Kang · 2017

The Vegetarian

Han Kang · 2016

<b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><b>“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize</b><br><br><b><i>A NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE </b><br><b>ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br>A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS </i>BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br><b>“Ferocious.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Ten Best Books of the Year)</b><br><b>“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff</b><br><b>“Provocative [and] shocking.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. <br><br>Celebrated by critics around the world, <i>The Vegetarian</i> is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.<br><b><br>A Best Book of the Year: <i>BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly</i></b>

The White Book

Han Kang · 2018

Untold Night and Day

Bae Suah · 2021

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides · 2021