Books

Despite the huge popularity of Korean restaurants, there has been no comprehensive book on Korean cooking—until now.

The Korean Vegan Cookbook is a rich portrait of the immigrant experience with life lessons that are universal. It celebrates how deeply food and the ones we love shape our identity.

This beautiful, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge, engaging in dangerous physical work, and the men take care of the children.

An anthem for freedom, individuality, and motherhood featuring a plucky, spirited heroine who rebels against the tradition-bound world of the barnyard, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly is a novel of universal resonance.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking.

No One Writes Back is a quiet yet profound meditation on loneliness, human connection, and the universal longing to be heard.

An exquisitely-crafted debut, which won the Prix Robert Walser, Winter in Sokcho is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation.

The book is structured as six interconnected stories, all set in a single, massive skyscraper-city called Beanstalk

A new, definitive translation of thequintessential Korean classic: the Robin Hood story of a magical boy who joins a group of robber bandits and becomes a king

Lucidly 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.

A stunning, wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite

Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.

A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty.

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself achieves its author’s greatest wish—to show Korean literature as part of an international tradition.

A political allegory of Korea's transition from dictatorship to democracy.

A fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance.

From one of Korea's most renowned and respected authors, At Dusk is a gentle yet urgent tale about the things, and the people, that we abandon in our never-ending quest to move forward.

Profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty.

Rich with historic detail and filled with luminous characters, Korea’s most beloved novelist brings a lost era to life in a story that will resonate long after the final page.

Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian 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.