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In Celebration of Women in Translation Month: Asian Women Authors — Part II [in The Booklist Reader]

30 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Fiction, Japanese, Korean, Lists, Repost, Short Stories, Thai, Translation

This is the second of a two-part series. Click here for Part I. Last week, we shared a baker’s dozen of titles by Asian women writers, made accessible by dedicated, invaluable translators who continuously, miraculously enable anglophone readers in discovering, enjoying, and sharing books from around...

Five More to Go: Sok-yong Hwang’s At Dusk [in The Booklist Reader]

17 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Lists, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

At Dusk by Sok-yong Hwang and translated by Sora Kim-Russell In just over a year, three Sok-yong Hwang titles – Familiar Things (2018), Princess Bari (2019), and this novel – have arrived stateside, each indelibly, adroitly anglophoned by Seoul-based Sora Kim-Russell. Lauded by Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe as “undoubtedly the most powerful voice...

The White Book by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

03 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

White, not black, is the color of mourning in Han Kang’s home country of South Korea, as well as other parts of Asia. This latest from Han, whose The Vegetarian was the 2016 Man Booker International Prize winner, is a meditative exploration of the limitless...

Ten Works of Contemporary Korean Literature in Translation [in The Booklist Reader]

27 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Lists, Repost, Translation

Despite Maureen Corrigan’s rather nasty NPR review of Korean author Kyung-sook Shin’s 2011 Stateside debut, Please Look After Mom – her phrase “cheap consolations of kimchee-scented Kleenex fiction” caused particular affront – Mom became a major bestseller. In a stroke of well-deserved vindication, Shin became the first woman...

Human Acts by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

09 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW With Han Kang’s The Vegetarian awarded the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, her follow-up will garner extra scrutiny. Bottom line? This new work, again seamlessly translated by Deborah Smith, who also provides an indispensable contextual introduction, is even more stupendous. Han drops readers into a...

The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

14 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Han Kang, a South Korean writing professor with Iowa Writers Workshop training, makes her English-translation debut with this spare, spectacular novel, in which a multigenerational, seemingly traditional Seoul family implodes. Yeong-hye, the youngest of three adult children, repeatedly announces "I had a dream," violent, bloody,...

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In Celebration of Women in Translation Month: Asian Women Authors — Part II [in The Booklist Reader]

Five More to Go: Sok-yong Hwang’s At Dusk [in The Booklist Reader]

The White Book by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

Ten Works of Contemporary Korean Literature in Translation [in The Booklist Reader]

Human Acts by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

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