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2018.12.13 00:06
NPR 선정 2018 우수도서에 편혜영, 신경숙 소설
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미 공영라디오 NPR이 선정한 2018년 우수 도서 319권에 영문으로 번역된 편혜영씨의 소설 '재와 빨강', 신경숙씨의 '리진', 모린 구의 'The Way You Make Me Feel', 에밀리 정민 윤의 'A Cruelty Special To Our Species'가 포함됐다.
NPR’s Book Concierge
Our Guide To 2018’s Great Reads
#The Way You Make Me Feel By Maurene Goo
Clara Shin, 17, is a consummate prankster, an expert in mocking others' enthusiasms and in hiding all of her own – until a prank gone wrong nearly burns down her school, leaving Clara on summer-long probation running her dad's food truck with her arch nemesis: Rose Carver, student body president and Queen of the Try Hards. Watching the two girls' complex personalities unfold as their mutual loathing slowly builds to real friendship is as fun as reading any love story – especially as it happens in tandem with a particularly charming actual love story between Clara and another food truck employee named Hamlet. If you (or Netflix) are looking for the next To All The Boys I've Loved Before, your search can stop here.
#City Of Ash And Red (재와 빨강, 편혜영): A Novel By Hye-young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
A man working for a pest control company is transferred to a dystopian nation ravaged by a mysterious virus, beginning a descent into a waking nightmare. Grim, disturbing and telegraphing a constant sense of anxiety, City of Ash and Red straddles the categories of thriller and speculative fiction novel, and succeeds in keeping us interested in a protagonist who becomes increasingly more loathsome as he scrabbles for his survival. Murder, rats, disease, rape and literal trash fires festoon this book. Not a pleasant read, but definitely a novel that deserves attention.
#The Court Dancer(리진, 신경숙): A Novel By Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Anton Hur
It is 1891. Yi Jin is the most accomplished dancer at the court of Korea's Joseon Dynasty, at a time when it is still largely sequestered from the rest of the world. The novel follows this orphan girl's adventures as she moves to Paris with her Western husband and becomes celebrated as the only Korean woman in Paris. Identity is the central, defining conundrum: If Yi Jin is not a Korean lady or a French madame, what is she? Sorrow threads itself through these pages, yet there is a richness both to the period and the narrative as beautiful as any silk fan.
#A Cruelty Special To Our Species: Poems By Emily Jungmin Yoon
In this searing debut collection, Emily Jungmin Yoon uses poetry to trace the history of Korean "comfort women," who were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers during World War II. Yoon's poems understand this fate as both harrowing and also historically ordinary; they reverberate with a tenderness that enlarges them out of their place or moment and also invites us in to empathize, to consider the deep links between war and sexual violence. "On Wednesdays, it rains// for the children they bore. For the children/ they could not bear For the children/ they were." This is a skilled, rich, mesmerizing opening to a new poetic career.
https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018
