We Do not Part
ISBN : 9780241600269
Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet and published her first short story in 1994. She won the Man Booker International Prize for 'The Vegetarian' and was shortlisted for 'The White Book'. In 2024, Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life". Among other major awards and prizes she is the winner of the Prix Médicis étranger 2023 for the French edition of 'We Do Not Part'. She taught in the department of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts for eleven years before leaving in 2018 to focus on writing. She is the fifth writer to contribute to the ongoing Future Library project in Oslo, Norway.
If I Had Your Face
ISBN : 9780241986356
In Seoul, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move, four women are balancing on a razor's edge : Kyuri, a beautiful "room salon" girl paid to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours. Miho, an artist whose life becomes enmeshed with the offspring of the super-wealthy elite. Ara, a hairstylist whose obsession with a K-pop star leads her to violent extremes. Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she can't afford.
PEPPA PIG: PEPPAS WASHING DAY: MY FIRST
ISBN : 9781409304845
PEPPA PIG: PEPPAS WASHING DAY: MY FIRST
