Kyung-sook Shin

2 months ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Mandana Chaffa |Bora Chung |Kyung-sook Shin |Elete Nelson-Fearon

Award-winning translator Anton Hur can add another achievement to his vita: successful novelist. Toward Eternity is an ambitious, rewarding, and dazzling meditation on the intersections of biology and technology, mortality and eternity, and collective and individual memory, as well as the meaning and necessity of art, and love.

May 23, 2024 | readings.com.au | Kyung-sook Shin |Anton Hur

Each week our wonderful staff share the books and music that they've been enjoying. Alicia Vu, a member of The Readings Teen Advisory Board, is reading Deep Is the Fen by Lili WilkinsonThis is a mysterious, fantastical and haunting tale! Lili Wilkinson weaves a page-turning novel that is a perfect mix of adventure, romance and fantasy. The main protagonist, Merry, undergoes a bewitching journey to understand magic, witches, love, and the consequences of unchallenged power...

Sep 9, 2023 | straitstimes.com | Kyung-sook Shin |Anton Hur

I Went To See My FatherBy Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Anton HurFiction/Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Paperback/304 pages/$20.83/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3PreUPF)4 out of 5 starsWhen her mother is taken to a hospital in Seoul for medical treatment, writer Hon returns home to care for her lonely father. He had unexpectedly wept at the send-off, shocking Hon out of her own grief. This is the first time in two years that she is setting foot in her home town J–, a village in South Korea.

Jun 9, 2023 | scroll.in | Kyung-sook Shin |Anton Hur

Whenever I think of what I left behind in that place, I remember my father standing there all alone as I finally shouted, Father, I have to go, and ran for the bus. The bus had stopped, Father was still inside the store, and I shouted, Father, I have to go now . . . And there I was, climbing on board. Before the doors shut, I leaned out to look one more time at Father’s store. Inside, I tried to open a window, but they were sealed shut.

Apr 11, 2023 | tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com | Kyung-sook Shin

My reviews this week will see me taking a break from our International Booker Prize longlist journey, but as regular readers will know, my focus on literary fiction in translation means that our vicarious travels are unlikely to stop. Today’s choice sees me returning to one of my favourite literary destinations, South Korea, with a look at the latest work by a familiar name.