Young-ha Kim Books

The debut English-language collection of one of South Koreas most distinctive and accomplished sci-fi authors

When the latest victim of a serial rapist is found alive, the media is determined not to let the fragile woman have any peace until they get all the facts. But it's not the type of story that would attract gossip reporter Tae-Ha-not until those same pressing members of the press are murdered one by one. Is it just a cruel prank, or does his nine-tailed companion have something to do with their deaths?

A collection of wild, dark, erotic stories, including the blackly funny tale of a former serial killer suffering from memory loss, who sets his sights on one final target: his daughter's boyfriend.

North Korean spy Gi-yeong, who has been living undercover in South Korea with his wife and daughter, leaves his job as foreign film importer to travel to the North after he is suddently called back to headquarters after twenty-one years.

I don't encourage murder. I have no interest in one person killing another. I only want to draw out morbid desires, imprisoned deep in the unconscious. This lust, once freed, starts growing. Their imaginations run free, and they soon discover their potential... They are waiting for someone like me.A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the lost and wounded of big-city Seoul, suggesting solace in suicide. Wandering through the bright lights of their high-urban existence, C and K are brothers who fall in love with the same woman - Se-yeon. As their lives intersect, they tear at each other in a struggle to find connection in their fast-paced, atomized world.Dreamlike and cinematic, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself brilliantly affirms Young-ha Kim as Korea's leading young literary master.

Liebe, Sex und Leben. Keiner ist mehr in nur einer Welt. Mehrfach-realitäten, Internet, Handys. Ein schneller Wandel. Grenzen zwischen Erlebtem und Fiktion verschwimmen. 10 atemberaubende Kurzthriller. Gänsehaut, Suspensegefühl, Erotik. Schauplatz der Handlung der neuen Erzählungen von Kim Young-ha ist meist das gegenwärtige Südkorea. Ein zufälliges Aufeinanderprallen in der U-Bahn. Die Frau, eine Schauspielerin, findet danach einen Piepser in ihrer Tasche. Sie wartet auf die Vibration, darauf, dass der Unbekannte Kontakt aufnimmt, während sie eine Sexszene dreht. Am Ende aber sieht alles anders aus. Eine Kaufhausdiebin. Menschen, die sich einen ekstatischen Kick durch Blitze holen. Ein Mord. Kleine Geschehnisse, scheinbare Zufälle, bringen die Welt der ProtagonistInnen durcheinander. Und dann beginnt die Zeit manchmal, rückwärts zu laufen.

Kim Young-Ha esplora come un avventuriero la vita moderna. Sullo sfondo di una ipertecnologica Seoul, città di luci, complessi residenziali e centri commerciali, i personaggi si muovono immersi in un convulso fluire di eventi, vicende paradossali e surreali confinali a sorpresa, che rimandano a un certo cinema coreano d'autore. Che siano impiegati, ispettori, giovani sbandati o coniugi di un vampiro, tutti i protagonisti vivono la medesima condizione di soggetti "incastrati" in situazioni al di fuori del loro controllo, vittime inconsapevoli di un gioco più grande di loro. Tuttavia anche quando ogni promessa di felicità sembra negata, ecco aprirsi improvvisamente un varco, un'uscita di emergenza in grado di gettare un barlume di senso su una grigia esistenza.

Black Flower puts a fictional spin on a little-known moment when thousands of Koreans fled political upheaval and the fall of their empire to seek land and freedom in Mexico, found themselves bonded laborers on its plantations, and eventually started a revolution that led briefly to a "new Korea."