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The Library Of Musical Instruments

by Jung-Hyuk Kim

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 The second short-story collection by Kim Jung-hyuk, the author of Penguin News, features a total of eight short stories, including â€œSyncopation Dâ€ which won the 2nd Kim You-jeong Literary Award in 2008.
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God Has No Grandchildren

by Gyeong-Uk Kim

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 The nine stories that make up this collection depict a wide variety of contemporary Koreans navigating a world focused on material wealth and social power, in which family ties have been disrupted and all relationships are dysfunctional.
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No One Writes Back

by Eunjin Jang

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 <p><span><b>Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel. </b></p></span><p><i>No One Writes Back</i> is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or even invent nicknames for them—he assigns them numbers. There''s 239, who once dreamed of being a poet, but who now only reads her poems to a friend in a coma; there''s 109, who rides trains endlessly because of a broken heart; and 32, who''s already decided to commit suicide. The narrator writes letters to these men and women in the hope that he can console them in their various miseries, as well as keep a record of his own experiences: "A letter is like a journal entry for me, except that it gets sent to other people." No one writes back, of course, but that doesn''t mean that there isn''t some hope that one of them will, someday...</p>
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Stingray

by Kim Joo-Young e Louis Vinciguerra

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 <div>Hailed by critics, <I>Stingray</I> has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my loving mother." With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s. Determined to wait for her husband''s return, Se-young''s mother hangs a dried stingray on the kitchen doorjamb; to her, it''s a reminder of the fact that she still has a husband, and that she must behave as a married woman would, despite all. Also, she claims, when the family is reunited, the fish will be their first, celebratory meal together. But when a beggar girl, Sam-rae, sneaks into their house during a blizzard, the first thing she does is eat the stingray, and what follows is a struggle, at once sentimental and ideological, for the soul of the household.</div>
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At Least We Can Apologize

by Lee Ki-Ho

17,23€ + 10% CARD

 A kaleidoscope of minor nuisances and major grievances, this novel heralds a new comic voice in Korean letters.
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Most Ambiguous Sunday And Other Stories

by Jung Young-Moon

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 <p> Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world and often compared to Kafka, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad.
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One Spoon On This Earth

by Hyun Ki-Young

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 An autobiographical novel that takes a life to pieces, One Spoon on this Earth stands a sort of digest of contemporary Korean history as it might be seen through the lens of one man's life and opinions.
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When Adam Opens His Eyes

by Jang Jung-Il

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 <p> First published in 1990, this is a sensational and highly controversial novel by one of Korea's most electrifying contemporary authors, which plows through contemporaneous Korean mores with aplomb.
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House With A Sunken Courtyard

by Kim Won-Il

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 <div>An occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War. This novel is based on the author''s own experience in his early teens in Daegu, in 1954, and depicts six families that survive the hard times together in the same house, weathering the tiny conflicts of interest and rivalries that spring up in such close quarters, but nonetheless offering one another sympathy and encouragement as fellow sufferers of the same national misfortune: brothers and sisters in privation.</div>
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Soil

by Yi Kwang-Su

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 <div>A major, never before translated novel by the author of <I>Mujông / The Heartless</I>—often called the first modern Korean novel—<I>The Soil</I> tells the story of an idealist dedicating his life to helping the inhabitants of the rural community in which he was raised. Striving to influence the poor farmers of the time to improve their lots, become self-reliant, and thus indirectly change the reality of colonial life on the Korean peninsula, <I>The Soil</I> was vitally important to the social movements of the time, echoing the effects and reception of such English-language novels as Upton Sinclair''s <I>The Jungle</I>.</div>
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My Son'S Girlfriend

by Jung Mi Kyung

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 At once an ironic portrayal of contemporary Korea and an intimate exploration of heartache, alienation, and nostalgia, this collection of seven short stories has earned the author widespread critical acclaim.
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Lonesome You

by Park Wan-Suh

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 <div>Well before her death in 2011, Park Wan-Suh had established herself as a canonical figure in Korean literature. Her work—often based upon her own personal experiences, and showing keen insight into divisive social issues from the Korean partition to the position of women in Korean society—has touched readers for over forty years. In this collection, meditations upon life in old age come to the fore—at its best, accompanied by great beauty and compassion; at its worst by a cynicism that nonetheless turns a bitter smile upon the changing world.</div>
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The Soil

by Yi Kwang-Su

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Woodworking With The Router Hardcover - Professional Router Techniques And Jigs Any Woodworker Can Use

by Bill Hylton

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 Still the Undisputed Champion of Router How-to Books More than 10 years after its original publication, WOODWORKING WITH THE ROUTER remains the most highly regarded--and best-selling--router manualÂ available
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Pride Of Our Alley - The Life Of Dame Gracie Fields Volume Ii - 1939-1979 (Hardback)

by Lassandro Sebastian Lassandro

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 With hundreds of previously unpublished stories, facts, photographs and interviews, Pride of Our Alley tells the story of Our Gracie Fields for the first time in its honest, factual entirety.
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Pride Of Our Alley - The Life Of Dame Gracie Fields Volume Ii - 1939-1979

by Lassandro Sebastian Lassandro

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 With hundreds of previously unpublished stories, facts, photographs and interviews, Pride of Our Alley tells the story of Our Gracie Fields for the first time in its honest, factual entirety.
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Mae West - Broadcast Muse (Hardback)

by Michaud Michael Gregg Michaud

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 MAE WEST: Broadcast Muse explores with hilarious details all the famed actress' radio and television ventures - those that made it on the air, and the many more that didn't - and bring the actress back to life in a way her fans have never seen before.
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Mae West - Broadcast Muse

by Michaud Michael Gregg Michaud

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 MAE WEST: Broadcast Muse explores with hilarious details all the famed actress' radio and television ventures - those that made it on the air, and the many more that didn't - and bring the actress back to life in a way her fans have never seen before.
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Son Of Dracula (Hardback)

by Kiss Dr. Robert J. Kiss, Rhodes Gary D. Rhodes e Weaver Tom Weaver

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Son Of Dracula

by Kiss Dr. Robert J. Kiss, Rhodes Gary D. Rhodes e Weaver Tom Weaver

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 Gary D. Rhodes guides a ghostly ship through the bayous and backwaters of Louisiana, casting his lantern's light on the vampires of Universal's 1943 classic Son of Dracula. Also illuminated are the film's production history and its original script.
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Pride Of Our Alley - The Life Of Dame Gracie Fields Volume I - 1898-1939 (Hardback)

by Lassandro Sebastian Lassandro

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Pride Of Our Alley - The Life Of Dame Gracie Fields Volume I - 1898-1939

by Lassandro Sebastian Lassandro

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Exorcism In Your Daily Life - The Psychedelic Firesign Theatre At The Magic Mushroom - 1967 (Hardback)

by Theatre Firesign Theatre

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 EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE presents ten surreal classics in which the Four Firesigns undertake to play dozens of characters in stoned variations on prison escape movies, whaling sagas, jungle adventures, Roman epics, Sherlock Holmes and more!
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Over There - Hollywood In Britain (Hardback)

by Frank Alan Frank

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 Over There - Hollywood In Britain is the first comprehensive record of made-in-Britain B-films featuring Americans on both sides of the camera.
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