Kim Hye-jin

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Kim Hye-jin is an award-winning author from Daegu, South Korea. She won the 2023 Kim Yujeong Literary Award, the JoongAng Literature Award in 2013 for Central Station, the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature in 2018 for Concerning My Daughter, and the Daesan Literary Award in 2020 for The Work of No. 9. She was also the Special Award Laureate of the 4th Lee Hochul Literary Prize for Peace in 2020.

 

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Counsel Culture
Counsel Culture
$18.00

By Kim Hye-jin

Translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang

From prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin comes the contemplative, superbly-crafted story of a woman scapegoated by sudden tragedy, and the unexpected paths she must wander in search of redemption.

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062321
Publication date: March 5, 2024

Concerning My Daughter
Concerning My Daughter
$17.00

By Kim Hye-jin

Translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang

Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s queer relationship.

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063496
Publication date: Sep 27, 2022

2022 Women in Translation Bundle
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2022 Women in Translation Bundle
$39.00 $53.00

Three women writers in translation, three stories about family and the lasting⁠—at times bizarre⁠—ways they can contour our lives, from Tahiti, South Korea, and France.

 

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