Petra Ben Ari Libri

Follows the aftermath of a young boy's shocking death during a violent student uprising as told from the perspectives of the event's victims and their loved ones.

How friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurd   Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I’ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from her ex-boyfriend after eight years of separation, memories of a tumultuous youth begin to resurface, forcing her to re-live the most intense period of her life. With profound intellectual and emotional insight, she revisits the death of her beloved mother, the strong bond with her now-dying former college professor, the excitement of her first love, and the friendships forged out of a shared sense of isolation and grief.   Yoon’s formative experiences, which highlight both the fragility and force of personal connection in an era of absolute uncertainty, become immediately palpable. Shin makes the foreign and esoteric utterly familiar: her use of European literature as an interpreter of emotion and experience bridges any gaps between East and West. Love, friendship, and solitude are the same everywhere, as this book makes poignantly clear.

From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian comes a stunning meditation on the colour white; about light, about death and about ritualFrom the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The VegetarianBoth the most autobiographical and the most experimental book to date from South Korean master Han Kang. Written while on a writer's residency in Warsaw, a city palpably scarred by the violence of the past, the narrator finds herself haunted by the story of her older sister, who died a mere two hours after birth. A fragmented exploration of white things - the swaddling bands that were also her shroud, the breast milk she did not live to drink, the blank page on which the narrator herself attempts to reconstruct the story - unfold in a powerfully poetic distillation. As she walks the unfamiliar, snow-streaked streets, lined by buildings formerly obliterated in the Second World War, their identities blur and overlap as the narrator wonders, 'Can I give this life to you?'. The White Book is a book like no other. It is a meditation on a colour, on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.(photographs in print edition only)

A CHARACTER AND PLOT AS ADDICTIVE AND TWISTED AS AMERICAN PSYCHO BY BRETT EASTON ELLIS, MISERY BY STEPHEN KING AND A CLOCKWORK ORANGE BY ANTHONY BURGESS.

Told in a brutally honest voice that at times simmers with impotent rage, Kim Hye-jin's Concerning My Daughter taps into the complexities of mother-daughter dynamics, but also the systemic issues and obstacles that LGBTQ communities face in heteronormative societies.

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.

Una storia potente e inquietante che rimarrà con voi a lungo, poiché, come affermava Einstein, "l'ultima frontiera dell'umanità non è l'universo, ma la mente umana". Una vera scena del crimine rivela la crudeltà umana più di qualsiasi film dell'orrore, e questo è ciò che Seonkyeong insegna ai suoi studenti di criminologia. Sebbene tutti la chiamino Clarice, la giovane professoressa è solo all'inizio della sua carriera e si trova a fronteggiare un mistero inquietante: perché il temibile serial killer Yi Byeongdo, noto per il suo volto angelico, ha deciso di parlare proprio con lei? Ha ucciso tredici donne, ma non ha mai rivelato dove ne ha nascosto i corpi, e ora è nel braccio della morte in attesa della pena capitale. In un momento già difficile della sua vita, con la figlia del marito che si trasferisce con loro dopo aver perso i nonni in un incendio, Seonkyeong deve affrontare un pericoloso killer e una bambina spaventata. Mentre cerca di accedere alla psiche malata di Yi Byeongdo, la piccola Hayeong si rivela schiva e attaccata al padre e al suo orsetto di peluche, mostrando reazioni inaspettatamente violente. Se è vero che i serial killer hanno avuto infanzie difficili, quali sono le radici dei loro comportamenti? È possibile che gli occhi di un terribile serial killer e di una indifesa bambina nascondano la stessa oscurità?