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1 month ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Gu Byeong-Mo |Daniel Eagan
Like Kill Boksoon and many other titles before it, Pa-gwa / The Old Woman with the Knife sticks an unlikely star into a John Wick-style universe. In this case it's Lee Hye-young, a veteran performer from South Korea recently seen on the screen in Hong Sang-soo's A Traveler's Needs. Director and co-writer Min Kyu-dong's needlessly complicated script starts in 1975, as a starving woman collapses on a snowy city street.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
onet.pl | Gu Byeong-Mo
Zapraszamy do lektury fragmentu powieści. Przy ustawionym na tyłach budynku stole mogło się zmieścić szesnastu dorosłych – zakładając oczywiście, że nie przeszkadza im stykanie się łokciami z sąsiadem za każdym razem, gdy sięgają po serwetkę lub kubek. Gdyby ścisnąć ich jeszcze bardziej, powodując, że poczują na ramieniu oddech drugiej osoby, znalazłoby się miejsce dla następnych sześciu, może siedmiu dzieci.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
pen.org | Gu Byeong-Mo
Award-winning author Gu Byeong-Mo’s latest novel Apartment Women (Hanover Square Press, 2024; translated by Chi-Young Kim) offers a sharp critique of gender roles, parenthood, and shared responsibilities, inviting readers to reflect on the cultural expectations of women in South Korea. The novel follows the intertwining lives of the four couples who live together in the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
bewitchedbookworms.com | Gu Byeong-Mo |Jillian Cantor |Women's Fiction
PrologueAmeliaSometimes the end of everything sneaks up on you when you least expect it. I read that once, in a Gloria Diamond novel. Only she was referring to an asteroid. For me, the end came as a 32 DD red lace bra. It happened on a rare rainy day in LA, two months after my thirty-third birthday. Two days after my mother had died. She had collapsed quite suddenly in her garden, my mother.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
bookmunch.wordpress.com | Gu Byeong-Mo
If your only experience of Gu Byeong-mo so far is her thriller The Old Woman with the Knife (and why wouldn’t it be given that, of her more than 20 works of fiction, we’re still only talking The Old Woman with the Knife, and now this book (with Wizard’s Bakery due to be published in 2025) that have been translated into English), then Your Neighbour’s Table is the proverbial something different.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
hastybooklist.com | Gu Byeong-Mo |Ashley Hasty
Books Publishing This Week: December 1 - 7I want to note that I do not get paid to do these posts, I just love authors and the book industry. However, they do take time and energy to create. If you want to donate a few dollars to my coffee fund, which keeps this blog going, you can do so here: https://venmo.com/AshleyHasty or here: http://paypal.me/hastybooklist. It’s a chilly December morning, and a fresh layer of frost glistens outside, blanketing the world in winter's quiet hush.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
arlingtonmagazine.com | Jennifer Rothschild |Gu Byeong-Mo |Chi-Young Kim |Amanda Lee Koe
Jólabókaflóð is an Icelandic word that translates as “Christmas Book Flood.” Icelanders typically give and receive books as holiday presents, leading to a large stack of books to enjoy at the end of the year. Whether you’re hoping to be gifted a book flood, or treating yourself, we have some wonderful new releases to read as 2024 draws to a close. The following information is provided courtesy of the Arlington Public Library.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Gu Byeong-Mo |Win A Copy |Lana Ferguson |Suzanne Allain
The book is in stores on Tuesday, December 3rd from Hanover Square Press. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4dkA4c4When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she’s ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbors, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thehoneypop.com | Gu Byeong-Mo |Julie Dam
We’re on a roll with translated novels this year! More specifically, Korean novels like The Trunk and A Magical Girl Retires. And today, we had the honor of reviewing Gu Byeong-mo’s new novel, Apartment Women. Apartment Women follows the lives of four women living in a communal housing program as part of a government initiative to boost the national birth rate. But the reality of communal living is far from ideal for these families.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
hastybooklist.com | Gu Byeong-Mo |Ashley Hasty
Book Mail: A Roundup of the Book Mail I Received Last Week“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” — Malcolm X I want to note that I do not get paid to do these posts, I just love authors and the book industry. However, they do take time and energy to create.
