Korea

Books set in Korea.

Pachinko
The Vegetarian
82년생 김지영
Human Acts
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Please Look After Mom
Crying in H Mart
The Island of Sea Women
If I Had Your Face
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Almond
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
The Orphan Master's Son
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. BorosonA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićGulab by Rohith S. KatbamnaThe Girl with No Face by M.H. BorosonA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Asian Protagonist
178 books — 40 voters

Vampires of Portlandia by Jason  TanamorAru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani ChokshiMist Bound by Daryl KhoDaughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn TanChinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Moss Roberts
Asian Mythology, Legends and Folklore
282 books — 57 voters
Cinder by Marissa MeyerEmpress of All Seasons by Emiko JeanEon by Alison GoodmanThe Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Asian Fantasy & Science Fiction
505 books — 304 voters

Julian Barnes
Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how to be romantic from books and movies, or from observation. But there was no model to learn from in my parents’ time. They didn’t even have the language to talk about their feelings. You just had to guess how your beloved felt from the look in his eyes, or the tone of her voice as she spoke to you.
Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

Young-ha Kim
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.
Young-ha Kim, I Have The Right To Destroy Myself

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