Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
3.490 kr.Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own.
Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night.
Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity.
Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely.
Kim Jiyoung is depressed.
Kim Jiyoung is mad.
Kim Jiyoung is her own woman.
Kim Jiyoung is every woman.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century and raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. Riveting, original and uncompromising, this is the most important book to have emerged from South Korea since Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.
Grænmetisætan
4.590 kr.Hin suður-kóreska Han Kang hlaut Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum árið 2024 fyrir ,,ákafan ljóðrænan prósa sem tekur á sögulegum áföllum og afhjúpar viðkvæmni mannlífsins.“ Áður hafði hún meðal annars hlotið Man Booker-verðlaunin árið 2016 fyrir Grænmetisætuna sem farið hefur sigurför um heiminn.
Bókin kom fyrst út á íslensku árið 2017 og hlaut mikið lof. Meðal annars völdu bóksalar hana sem bestu þýddu skáldsögu ársins. Han Kang var gestur á Bókmenntahátíðinni í Reykjavík sama ár. Grænmetisætan er endurútgefin í tilefni af Nóbelsverðlaununum.
Yeong-Hye og eiginmaður hennar lifa afar venjulegu lífi. Hann vinnur á skrifstofu en hún sinnir húsmóðurhlutverkinu af skyldu fremur en áhuga.
Dag einn ákveður hún að gerast grænmetisæta. ,,Mig var að dreyma,“ er eina skýringin sem hún gefur – í samfélagi þar sem það er bæði hneyksli og skammarlegt að borða ekki kjöt.
Ingunn Snædal þýddi.
The White Book
3.490 kr.Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018
From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016
From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.
Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
