Лучшие книги Син Кёнсук

Пак Сонё словно растворилась в воздухе недалеко от Сеульского вокзала. Муж выпустил руку супруги, и толпа поглотила ее. На поиски матери семейства бросается вся семья - дети расклеивают объявления, расспрашивают возможных очевидцев. Но, кажется, Пак Сонё пропал без следа. И чем больше члены семьи собирают о ней информации, чтобы сдвинуть поиски с мертвой точки, тем…

Неожиданный звонок с известием об ухудшении состояния всеми любимого наставника — профессора Юна заставляет Чон Юн вспомнить беспокойные дни студенческой юности в начале 80-х, заново пережить радость дружбы и любви, зарождающейся на фоне гражданских волнений в Сеуле. Дом родителей Миру ненадолго объединяет двух девушек и двух юношей. Одни из них пережили личные…

Хрупкость человеческого существования, неумолимая скоротечность отведённого каждому из нас земного времени, невозможность проникнуть во внутренний мир другого человека и его до конца понять — все это мы ощущаем в сюжетах 26 новелл, вошедших в эту книгу. Каждая история окрашена юмором, ироническим, но сочувственным отношением к человеку и его проблемам и даёт надежду…

We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a girl called Namae, and they become friends until one afternoon changes everything. Following a moment of physical intimacy in a minari field, Namae violently rejects San, setting her on a troubling path of quashed desire and isolation.

We next meet San, aged twenty-two, as she starts a job in a flower shop. There, we are introduced to a colourful cast of characters, including the shop's mute owner, the other florist Su-ae, and the customers that include a sexually aggressive businessman and a photographer, who San develops an obsession for. Throughout, San's moment with Namae lingers in the back of her mind.

A story of desire and violence about a young woman who everyone forgot, VIOLETS is a captivating and sensual read, full of tragedy and beauty.

Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mom brilliantly images the life of Yi Jin, an orphan who would fall under the affections of the Empress and become a jewel in the late Joseon Court.

When a novice French diplomat arrives for an audience with the Emperor, he is enraptured by the Joseon Dynasty’s magnificent culture, then at its zenith. But all fades away when he sees Yi Jin perform the delicate traditional Dance of the Spring Oriole. Though well aware that women of the court belong to the palace, the young diplomat confesses his love to the Emperor, and gains permission for Yi Jin to accompany him back to France.

A world away in Belle Epoque Paris, Yi Jin lives a free, independent life, away from the gilded cage of the court, and begins translating and publishing Joseon literature into French with another Korean student. But even in this new world, great sorrow awaits her. Yi Jin’s grieving and suffering is only amplified by homesickness and a longing for her oldest friend. But her homecoming was not a happy one. Betrayal, jealousy, and intrigue abound, culminating with the tragic assassination of the last Joseon empress—and the poisoned pages of a book.

Rich with historic detail and filled with luminous characters, Korea’s most beloved novelist brings a lost era to life in a story that will resonate long after the final page.

"The Place where the Organ was" gazes upon the fate of a young woman as "I". This is also a story about the lonely suffering of bearing with one's own given fate. This novel subtly tracks down the mind of a woman who has fallen in love with someone she shouldn't have.