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	My Body Was Standing or Walking Too Long********************** Lee Moongu 2000/89-8281-295-4/344p, 153X224 This is a new collection of stories by Lee Moongu, who has broken the literary silence in seven years. A series on trees are included in this remarkable anthology. As the author himself confesses in the introduction, he charts the change of rural life and consciousness of the past years. Lee describes the rural life of the 1990s, which is neither great nor miserable, with sharp satire and abundant humor. The title "My Body Was Standing or Walking Too Long" is from the poem titled "Chair," by Kim Myongin
	A Path of the One Who Killed God was Lonely Park Sangryung 2003/89-8281-680-1/406p, 145X197 Park, an author who's been constructing his own trans-religious and metaphysical world, with life and death as the consistent topics of his works, takes a showdown with Nietzsche and Zarathustra in this new work. As Park's latest full-length novel in 10 years since Discourse on the Seventh Master, the author attempts to challenge Nietzsche and propose fundamental criticisms on Western civilization, which strictly separates men from God.
	A Dirty Desk* Park Beomshin 2003/89-8281-660-7/368p, 138X195 The fruit of author Park Beomshin's 30-year literary career. This work not only includes his life story, but also a diary of the maturing of innocence. As a kind of growth story, the narrator of this piece is the author at the ages between 17 and 20, as well himself at the present from the perspective of a 56-year-old.
	Violet******************************************************* Shin Kyungsook 2001/89-8281-416-7/312p, 153X224 The title 'Violet' implies the literal meaning as a flower and color, and also indicates a coy lady. At the same time, it also invokes violence. The writer interconnects the multiple meanings in the novel through various episodes and metaphors. She further deepens its connotation by overlapping the tragic fate of the Greek mythology. Seoul thus turns into a stage where a mythical tragedy might be presented. Therefore, the color of violet may indicate bloodstained ordeals, an impediment of the alienated and the depressed.
	An Isolated Room*** Shin Kyungsook 1999/89-8281-246-6/456p, 153X224 Shin's most widely acclaimed work. Writing in an autobiographical style, she offers a retrospective account of when she was a maltreated, poverty-stricken factory worker, which is continually intersected by her self-exposure as a writer struggling with the distressing memory. With its consummation in the revelation of the tragic event of her friend's suicide, the autobiographical narrative provides a vivid picture of Korean society drawn into the whirlpool of modernization as well as the author's personal experience. Shin is a winner of the prestigious Manhae Literary Prize.
	Deep Sorrow Shin Kyungsook (Vol.1)1994/89-85712-10-1/274p, 153X224 (Vol.2)1994/89-85712-11-X/282p, 153X224 This is the first, long awaited novel by the author who has attracted more attention from critics and readers than any other contemporary writers over the last decade. It tells a story about a young woman who was led to suicide with her grievous experience of failure to achieve a genuine relationship with other people, especially her lovers. Rendered in an elegant, beautiful, and richly textured style, the story gives an expression of human life in modern city susceptible to the dreadfulness of solitude.
	Save the Last Dance for Me************************************ Eun Heekyung 1998/89-8281-148-6/296p, 153X224 Your notion of love and marriage is false! For three years since her debut, she has been one of the most attractive and best writers of the 1990s. This is her second novel. The liberal love story is full of paradoxes and jokes that are her trademarks. The author destroys our notion of love and marriage.
	A Gift From a Bird* Eun Heekyung 1995/89-85712-76-4/398p, 153X224 A Gift From a Bird won the first Munhakdongne Award for Novels. Narrated by a precocious twelve year-old girl at the time of the Apollo 11 launch in 1969, this picaresque novel takes a serious yet humorous look at Korean adult society. This young girl, so confident that she knows more than she really does, shows the reader some delightful connections between private and public, between concerns of daily life in Korea and the world stage of Apollo 11. With this singular tour de force, Eun rose to the forefront of contemporary Korean writers.
	The Only Particular Day of My Life Cheon Kyounglyn 1999/89-8281-205-9/288p, 153X224 Now Cheon asks daunting questions: What is life? Who am I really? Silence and depression, deviation and passion are woven into a fine style. The peaceful images such as the butterfly, morning glory, warm seawater, placid countryside and old houses are juxtaposed with dramatic love affairs, passion, lust, betrayal and escape. But the love affairs finally focus on something inside oneself: the other me, the new me and the real me.
	I Have a Right to Destroy Myself******************************** Kim Youngha 1996/89-8281-002-1/208p, 143X224 "A human being, who wants to be a god in this age, has only two ways of becoming one: to create something or to kill somebody." Representative of this novel's startling premise are the comments of the Munhakdongne nominating committee, which called it both "delicate" and "provocative," as well as "odd" and "shocking." The existential hero is a guide ?who instructs in the art of suicide.? He leads his clients on a surreal journey that mixes a fatalistic fantasy with the poignant pathos of a committed realist. Kim's prose documents a zeitgeist in which spiritually undernourished modernists sate themselves in material abundance, sex and art, only to feel starved for something essential.
	Black flower** Kim Youngha 2003/89-8281-714-X/356p, 153X224 The first full-length novel of Kim Youngha, a representing author for the new generation with unleashed imagination, since his first work I have a right to destroy myself. This book is about the story of the first Korean emigrants in Chosun Dynasty, sold to Anniquin farms in Mexico as laborers. The author ridicules nationalism in a quiet tone, through the bitter lives of people who were forced to be deviated from their collapsed country.
	A Pure and Simple Mind Seong Seokjae 2000/89-8281-345-4/312p, 153X224 The story of life's hidden sorrows. It tells the life of Lee Chido, the "thief of thieves," whose mother Chunmae is a barmaid of a tavern in downtown and father Bongdal is a tinker. It is a well-described tragicomedy, which treats the lives of marginal people.
	Beautiful Ghosts of Mine*************************************** Choi Inseok 1999/89-8281-247-4/272p, 153X224 The author's latest novel. The perfect combination of the real world and the fantastic world. The author writes of a young man's experience of growth in a slum town, which has been a deep wound to many Koreans of modern-day history. Rendered in an elegant, beautiful, and richly textured style, the story gives a painful experience of human life in the slums of a modern city. The author's hope for utopia accompanies the growing self-hate and contempt, which make his works unique in the Korean literary scene.
	Baking Time* Cho Kyoungran 1996/89-8281-001-3/208p, 143X224 The Munhakdongne New Writer Award winning novel. This story depicts a girl's quest to unravel the mystery of her secretive birth and to secure her love for a vivacious man, Ikju. The various loaves of bread give her succor and the eventual strength to cope with the discovery that she is her aunt's daughter and that her lover once loved her half-sister. The novel shows a woman breaking out of the cocoon of suppression that has imprisoned her.
	Black Deers Han Kang 1998/89-82811-33-8/440p, 148X210 A black deer is an imaginative animal living in the cracks of dark rocks deeply underground. It dreams of going up on the ground to see the sun, but is doomed to melt away as soon as it's exposed to the sunlight. This book elaborately describes the portrait of modern people, who are ceaselessly asked for identification, but destined to melt away the very moment they obtain it.
	Goodbye, Lee Sang******************************************** Kim Yeonsoo 2001/89-8281-358-6/280p, 153X224 Kim Yeonsoo is an intellectual writer of the 90s. He presents a new experimental composition in this particular work as he writes of a genius writer in his 30s, Lee Sang, based upon accurate observation and historical investigation. Kim balances both the actual documents and Lee's accomplishments with the fictitious elements of false narration and imaginary characters. Kim is also careful about providing footnotes. By means of this compositional experiment, Kim guides the reader to follow a train of reasoning on the mysteries of Lee Sang, leaving an ontological question of reality and fiction.
	She Leads a Quiet Life* Lee Haekyung 2002/89-8281-611-9/492p, 153X224 The Winner of the 8th Munhakdongne Award for Novels. This work is praised for its linguistic style and gripping plot built upon "a chain of misunderstanding." It attempts to break the stereotype of "novels by an author," and draws a landscape that "provokes a bitter smile, as well as an emotional pain."
	Legend of the Earth hero Park Minkyu 2003/89-8281-679-8/187p, 146X210 The winner of the 8th Munhakdongne New Writer Award. Unpredictable imagination, lively and adventurous themes, witty and scampering volubility, bold but brilliant literary personality, and authorial points of view seeing the world upside-down are outstanding in this book. This book, containing a heavy theme of 'America's strategy of governing the world' in a unique form of 'unbearable lightness of comics', makes the readers ponder on how much of our imagination is peculiar to us.