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Top 10 books about North Korea
Top 10 books about North Korea. (by Novelist DB John) 1. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick 2. North of the DMZ by Andrei Lankov 3. Long Road Home by Kim Yong 4. A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church 5. North Korea Confidential by Daniel Tudor and James Pearson 6. Dear Leader by Jang Jin-sung 7. The... -
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Best books of 2017 – part one
Han Kang's THE WHITE BOOK named one of the "Best Books of 2017" -
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Han Kang: ‘If I was 100% healthy I couldn’t have become a writer’
Han Kang is a South Korean writer whose novels in translation include Human Acts and The Vegetarian – for which she won the 2016 International Man Booker prize. Her latest work, The White Book, is a moving autobiographical meditation on loss and grief. Her new book tells the story of her sister who... -
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The White Book by Han Kang review – the fragility of life
Han Kang, the author of 'The Vegetarian' has written a powerful autobiographical meditation on the life and death of a newborn sister. 'The White Book' is a fragmented autobiographical meditation on the death of the unnamed narrator’s baby sister, who died two hours after her birth. Han wisely... -
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Translation Tuesday: Two poems by Lee Seong-Bok
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Translation Tuesday: Three poems by Choi Seung-ja