Two weeks ago I was sick in bed and couldn’t focus on “serious” reading, so I grabbed #CursedBunny by #BoraChung.
Fairy-tale surface, nightmare core. Bizarre scenes—but the feelings (fear, anger, grief) are painfully real. Oddly comforting, too.
#KoreanFiction #ShortStories #WeirdFiction
#basteiluebbe #betrayed #booksky #buchbubble #buchsky #buecherhimmel #chosen #germanbooksky #koreanfiction #luebbeverlag #prinzessindertausenddiebe #theahong
32nd book of 2025
#welcometothehyunamdongbookshop #hwangboreum #litfic #koreanfiction #comfortread #booksky
Dallergut Dream Department Store is a great read for those who enjoy #CozyFantasy.
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#Fantasy #KoreanFantasy #KoreanFiction #Heartwarming #ReadingCommunity #BookSky #IrishBookBlogger #IrishBookReviewer
A book being held in front of a bookshelf. The books is mostly purple. It shows a woman walking her dog past a bookshop at night. The title reads Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum.
I’ve read a lot of healing fiction, this is by far the best and my favorite yet! Maybe it’s because my own recent personal journey to becoming a bookseller is reflected but I found myself crying and feeling better about my new path in life after reading this.
#books #healingfiction #koreanfiction
Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park
⭐⭐⭐⭐
First book of 2025 complete!
The protagonist’s fear of rejection and very real feelings of scarcity of love in this world were the focus of this beautiful novel.
#booksky #gayswhoread #literaryfiction #queerliterature #koreanfiction #bookreview
This list was partially sourced from friends who read more Korean fiction than I do, and partially sourced from my own bookshelf. It is not an exhaustive list of #KoreanFiction & #poetry in #translation but it does cover a lot of titles people like and offers a few yet to be translated titles.
#thevegetarian #hankang #nobelprizeliterature #InternationalBookerPrize #koreannovel #koreanfiction #koreanliterature #fiction
3/3
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Finished reading #HanKang’s #TheVegetarian. A moving & depressing exploration of mental illness as well as an ingenious way of looking at our species, the restricting confines of our body & what would it mean to desire to escape to some other form & way of life. #NobelPrize #KoreanFiction #Novel