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Korean Literature
4 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Best Korean Literature: Essential Reading from South Korea
The best Korean literature — from The Vegetarian and Human Acts to Pachinko and The White Book. Essential contemporary and classic Korean fiction.
Where to Start with Han Kang: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Han Kang — whether to begin with The Vegetarian, Human Acts, or Greek Lessons. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winning Korean novelist.
Books Like Pachinko: Multigenerational Sagas, Immigration, and the Weight of History
Min Jin Lee's four-generation saga of a Korean family in Japan — from a teenage girl's shame to her grandson's life in Tokyo — is the great immigration novel of the twenty-first century. These books share its multigenerational sweep, its focus on survival, and its account of what it costs to live as an outsider.
Books Like The Vegetarian: Transgression, the Body, and Quiet Violence
Han Kang's triptych about a woman who stops eating meat — and what this decision does to the people around her — is unlike almost anything else in contemporary fiction. These books share its unsettling precision, its focus on the body as battleground, and its willingness to follow transgression to its end.
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