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Publisher's Summary
This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me.
Yunjae was born with a brain condition called alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends - the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that - but his devoted mother and grandmother aren’t fazed by his condition. Their little home above his mother’s used bookstore is decorated with colorful Post-it notes that remind him when to smile, when to say "thank you", and when to laugh. Yunjae grows up content, even happy, with his small family in this quiet, peaceful space.
Then on Christmas Eve - Yunjae’s 16th birthday - everything changes. A shocking act of random violence shatters his world, leaving him alone and on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Yunjae retreats into silent isolation, until troubled teenager Gon arrives at his school and begins to bully Yunjae. Against all odds, tormentor and victim learn they have more in common than they realized. Gon is stumped by Yunjae’s impassive calm, while Yunjae thinks if he gets to know the hotheaded Gon, he might learn how to experience true feelings. Drawn by curiosity, the two strike up a surprising friendship. As Yunjae begins to open his life to new people - including a girl at school - something slowly changes inside him. And when Gon suddenly finds his life in danger, it is Yunjae who will step outside of every comfort zone he has created to perhaps become a most unlikely hero.
The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship, and persistence can change a life forever.
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- Lori G.
- 01-31-22
So many quotes to choose from...
I greatly enjoyed this book. The story is told from the perspective of Yunjae, a boy born with the inability to feel fear or other emotions. This is a coming of age story but not exactly in the usual sense. There is no rebellion here or drama with parental figures. Yunjae is trying to understand himself and his relation to others and to the larger world. Since he does not feel emotion he is quite reflective on the meaning of words. I never appreciated how much emotion translates the individual words we use each day. Similar to how words representing color would be difficult for someone who has never seen to interpret, words that contain an emotional context are difficult for Yunjae to interpret. There is an underlying current in this book about what is normal and the pressure placed on individuals to be normal and to conform. In the course of the story we are introduced to Gon, a boy who was abducted from his family at a young age and is later abandoned and put into the system. It is an interesting juxtaposition between Yunjae, who was raised by a caring mother and grandmother and Gon who was raised in chaos and without love. In the beginning of the novel, Yunjae refers to them both as monsters. Yunjae who cannot feel emotion and Gon who trusts no one develop a relationship. Neither one of them truly understands what it means to be or have a friend. I found it really interesting that Yunjae was able to accept Gon and see value in him mainly due to his ability to view Gon's actions without emotion. This book took me through more lows than highs and I am left with this: “Lastly, and I know it sounds like an excuse, but neither you nor I nor anyone can ever really know whether a story is happy or tragic.”
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- Julianne Horsley
- 09-23-21
Love it and was so sad when it ended
I saw that BTS’s RM and Suga were reading this book in an ad and thought why not give it a try. I can honestly say, this book was excellent, even without a call out from BTS. Very easy to read and I couldn’t put it down. I was hooked. I wish I could read it again for the first time, I loved it so much. This book made me feel so many things. I highly recommend you read this!
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- David Brownstein
- 09-05-21
Hope and growth mindset
This short novel is about friendship and change. It is beautifully written and filled with ebbs and flows of life.
Some books are best read. For me, this book was more meaningful by listening. My mind could do focus on the story and visuals.
It would be a discussion point for college freshmen or as a book club selection. As the story touched my heart, I kept wondering, how might others relate and react?
The book was recommended by RM from BTS; now I understand why.
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- Swim
- 02-16-21
Adding to the fav list! 💜
I loved this story. I broke down so hard during the empathy experiment. Exquisite and beautifully thought provoking.
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- Average Joe
- 01-11-23
Nice book
Started off a little slow for my liking and I didn’t connect the way I wanted to with the narrator so I would’ve preferred reading the book myself
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- Kim gyu sok
- 12-26-22
4.8 of 5
In short, this is a Building’s Roman novel.
Actually Korean is much better than English.
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- zach
- 12-11-22
Good read
I enjoyed this book. Narrator did a fantastic job. Story was tragic and welcomed, as I have recently survived my own tragedy.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-05-22
Thought provoking and beautiful
I am always looking for a memorable way to change my scope and world-view. When this book was recommended countless times by the community of readers I interact with, I had to give it a read. Took only a day to get through, and quite the tear-jerker, though I am a little sensitive. Made me ask many questions, and triggered many deep conversations with my friends and partner. Overall something I will revisit, continue thinking about until something else catches my eye in the same way.
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- Sarah Farley
- 10-22-22
Really touching
I had a friend that was similar to the main character, not as extreme but definitely not like the rest of us (teenage girls). She had Very few or suppressed emotions. Turns out she had a benign tumor on her pituitary gland. When she was in college they treated it and it totally changed her. She had what would be described as “normal” emotional reactions thereafter. So to me this story was totally relatable! Well told story, sad on many parts.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-18-22
Slow start but very wholesome ending
I wasn’t really sure how I was going to feel about this book until about halfway through. The narration was monotonous but I think, for this particular story and character, it worked very well. The ending is beautiful, the whole story is a little sad, but the message from the main character is excellent. I’d definitely recommend.
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- Vivienne
- 08-18-22
Simple, short and entertaining
I really liked this one. The narrator was great, the story and central character were interesting and it's not too long. I'd listen again!
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Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend, Yoichi, and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.
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First Time is the Charm
- By just asking for some common sense on 08-22-19
By: Banana Yoshimoto
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The White Book
- By: Han Kang
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. The White Book becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white - breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin - and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes.
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Great story!
- By wendell on 03-06-23
By: Han Kang
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
- By: Baek Sehee
- Narrated by: Jully Lee
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her—what to call it?—depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends, performing the calmness her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favourite street food: the spicy rice cake, tteokbokki?
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Pretty difficult to listen to.
- By James on 03-10-23
By: Baek Sehee
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Human Acts
- A Novel
- By: Han Kang
- Narrated by: Sandra Oh, Deborah Smith - introduction, Greta Jung, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho's best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother.
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Tedious
- By Kindle Customer on 02-16-17
By: Han Kang
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
- A Novel
- By: Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang - translator
- Narrated by: Kathleen Choe
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.
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This is not a novel.
- By Anonymous User on 02-17-21
By: Cho Nam-Joo, and others
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Violets
- By: Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur - translator
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life—painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of '90s South Korea. Over the course of one hazy, volatile summer, San meets a curious cast of characters: the nonspeaking shop owner, a brash coworker, quiet farmers, and aggressive customers. Fueled by a quiet desperation to jump-start her life, she plunges headfirst into obsession with a magazine photographer.
By: Kyung-Sook Shin, and others
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Kitchen
- By: Banana Yoshimoto
- Narrated by: Emily Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend, Yoichi, and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.
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First Time is the Charm
- By just asking for some common sense on 08-22-19
By: Banana Yoshimoto
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The White Book
- By: Han Kang
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. The White Book becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white - breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin - and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes.
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Great story!
- By wendell on 03-06-23
By: Han Kang
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Yolk
- By: Mary H. K. Choi
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. June’s three years older, a classic first-born, know-it-all narc with a problematic finance job and an equally soulless apartment (according to Jayne). Jayne is an emotionally stunted, self-obsessed basket case who lives in squalor, has egregious taste in men, and needs to get to class and stop wasting Mom and Dad’s money (if you ask June). Once thick as thieves, these sisters who moved from Seoul to San Antonio to New York together now don’t want anything to do with each other. That is, until June gets cancer.
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Most human book I’ve read about this inhuman time
- By Earl on 03-09-21
By: Mary H. K. Choi
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Please Look After Mom
- By: Kyung-Sook Shin, Chi-Young Kim - translator
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Samantha Quan, Janet Song, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea - a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation - this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.
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A Life, Deconstructed.
- By Amanda on 12-10-11
By: Kyung-Sook Shin, and others
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If I Had Your Face
- A Novel
- By: Frances Cha
- Narrated by: Frances Cha, Sue Jean Kim, Ruthie Ann Miles, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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If I Had Your Face is a riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, South Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania. Together, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal, in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them.
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incredibly enlightening
- By Barbara S on 01-01-21
By: Frances Cha
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Sweet Bean Paste
- By: Durian Sukegawa, Alison Watts - translator
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape.
By: Durian Sukegawa, and others
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The Pachinko Parlor
- By: Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins - translator
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents': daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days slip by. The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven't been back since.
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin, and others
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Love in the Big City
- A Novel
- By: Sang Young Park, Anton Hur - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men.
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Hurts so good
- By Anonymous User on 12-01-22
By: Sang Young Park, and others