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  • Toward Eternity

    A Novel

    by Anton Hur ...
    "A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the building and burning of bridges." -New York Times*A PARADE, LITHUB, and CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS Best New ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cursed Bunny

    by Bora Chung ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society. Anton Hur's translation skilfully captures the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • That Summer's End

    Poems

    by Lee Seong-bok ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    One hundred and six poems of self-reflection and exquisite beauty—an intoxicating blend of Seon Buddhism and French Symbolism from one of South Korea's most celebrated and influential poetsThat summer I stood in the centers of storms That summer my despair burst out into crimson but still I weathered the wind and rainMountains, rivers, trees, flowers, the dark, a cat, a train. In the elemental ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Magical Girl Retires

    A Novel

    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    by Park Seolyeon ...
    A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

    A Memoir

    by Baek Sehee ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    Series series I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
    The New York Times bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker shortlistee Anton Hur.PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?ME: I don't know, I'm-what's the word-depressed? Do I have to go into detail?Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her-what to call it?-depression? She feels persistently low, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Heart of the Nhaga

    Book One of the Bird That Drinks Tears

    by Lee Young-do ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    Series Book 1 - The Bird That Drinks Tears
    Welcome to Lee Young-do’s epic classic series, The Bird That Drinks Tears. The master of Korean fantasy—often cited as the J.R.R. Tolkien of South Korea—Lee Young-do has created a tale of castles built on the backs of flying mantas, giant birdmen, heartless immortals, and a quest that will change the very nature of the world and its gods, available for the first time in English by award-winning ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Magical Girl Rehired

    A Novel

    by Park Seolyeon ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    In this charmingly chaotic follow-up to A Magical Girl Retires, our favorite millennial-turned-magical girl begrudgingly returns to the workforce to fight crime and the forces of evil.Our protagonist from A Magical Girl Retires is done with the magical girl life . . . but the magical girl life isn't done with her. After her request to take early retirement is resoundingly rejected by the ... Read more

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  • Counterweight

    A Novel

    by Djuna ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    A WIRED "BOOK YOU NEED TO READ" • For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world’s first space elevatorAn “antic, madcap noir with flair" (Wired) and“fast-paced cyberpunk story” (The New York Times Book Review) from one ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Blood for the Undying Throne

    by Sung-il Kim ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    Series Book 2 - The Bleeding Empire
    Blood for the Undying Throne, the sequel to Blood of the Old Kings, from award-winning Korean author Sung-il Kim and translated by the world-renowned Anton Hur, is an epic fantasy adventure where the corpses of sorcerers power an empire and ordinary people rise up to tear it down.Nothing can stop the Empire’s insatiable conquest.Not gods, not dragons, not armies.But heroes still rise.The Empire ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Your Utopia

    Stories

    by Bora Chung ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    From the acclaimed author and translator of the National Book Award Finalist, Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears**—**and deepest desires.Bora Chung’s inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Capitalists Must Starve : A Novel

    by Seolyeon Park ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    From the writer and translator duo of A Magical Girl Retires, a powerful historical novel about labour activism in Japanese-occupied Korea.Set against the backdrop of Japanese-occupied Korea, Capitalists Must Starve follows a sharp-tongued, big-hearted heroine who dares to love, rebel, and carve out space for working-class women in a world determined to silence them. Echoing the unflinching ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Sword

    by Bora Chung ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    Amid a literal fog of war on a disputed planet, a woman is thrust into battle, forced to fight in her captors' war. With an empire at her back, ready to kill her at the slightest hesitation, this slaveturned- reluctant hero must battle through an unknown enemy, scientific abominations, and truly alien terrain to uncover the truth about her identity and that of her enslaved companions.Chung's novel ... Read more

    $10.19 USD