South Korea is becoming a major player on the world’s literary scene, beginning with last year’s London Book Fair, which spotlighted Korean literature. In particular, the country’s literary scene is making a name for itself with dark, transgressive fiction by female writers, some of which might not feel familiar or likable enough for American readers—but they’re well worth the challenge. In the post– Gone Girl era, “dark” gets thrown around a lot when describing books that have anything other than a happily ever after ending, but these books really will take you to a dark place—as in “teenage girl has sex with her father to make him feel better after mom goes to prison for hacking up a teenage boy” dark.

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You’ve been warned. “Western audiences love strong, memorable, active main characters, whereas Korean literature has tended to find an aesthetic value, and a social truthfulness, in quietness, ordinariness, and passivity,” says Deborah Smith, a London-based translator of Korean literature and the founder of. (She translated The Vegetarian, mentioned below.) “They’re not coming from the tradition of the Romantic hero, and the contemporary culture is nowhere near as individualist as ours.” On that note, here are a few books you should know about—just don’t mistake any of them for beach reads. Han Kang, The VegetarianKang, daughter of a well-known writer, is a star in Korea, and The Vegetarian—three connected novellas published in a single volume—is her first to be translated into English. It kicks off with a scene many Americans will find familiar, where a young woman announces to her family that she’s a vegetarian now.

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But while scenes like that are often played for humor in American pop culture (Lisa Simpson, anyone?), Kang’s heroine’s decision sets off a series of unsettling events: her marriage ends, her parents renounce her, she runs the risk of being committed. It’s a complex, terrifying look at how seemingly simple decisions can affect multiple lives, and it also ably portrays the mindsets of both the titular vegetarian and the long-suffering sister who becomes her caretaker. In a world where women’s bodies are constantly under scrutiny, the protagonist’s desire to disappear inside of herself feels scarily familiar.

Suki Kim, The InterpreterKim’s recent memoir, Without You, There Is No Us, detailed Kim’s (born in Korea and raised in the United States) experience teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s 1 percent. But her 2003 novel focuses on the Korean immigrant experience in America through the story of a young woman whose parents are murdered in the bodega they manage. She soon learns that their deaths are not random and is slowly drawn into the community’s dark, mistrustful underbelly. Kim nails the voice of a woman wedged between two cultures, not sure whether she really belongs in either. Many stories about first-generation Americans veer toward the nostalgic or the hardscrabble, but The Interpreter doesn’t take easy paths.

Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After MomIn 2012, Kyung-sook Shin became the first woman to win the Man Asian literary award for her book Please Look After Mom. The basic plot of the novel is that an old woman goes missing after disappearing at a Seoul subway station, and her family goes looking for her. Along the way, though, her relatives have to ask themselves serious questions about how well they really know their mother and what kind of life she had outside of being a caretaker for others. Shin that she had wanted to write the book for 30 years before she actually attempted it: “It took me so long to write it because my concept of ‘mother’ changed so much over all those years.

I had to think long and hard about my own mother in that time and I found that thinking about your own mother is really thinking about yourself.” Shin has also said that the book—which sold 10 million copies in Korea alone—deals with the Korean concept of han, which is sometimes translated in English as “a feeling of sorrow and oppression” or “profound, prolonged sadness.”. Nora Okja Keller, Fox GirlOkja Keller’s two novels, Comfort Women and Fox Girl, look at the culture of “comfort women” who were forced into sex work during World War II. The women of Fox Girl are regularly degraded and humiliated; one develops a reputation for “doing the things nobody else would do.” Sometimes, reading it feels like getting punched in the stomach. But it’s that uncomfortable feeling that makes it a book worth reading.

Considering that it took until the 1990s for either the Korean or Japanese governments to begin to acknowledge what had happened to the comfort women during the war, Keller’s books feel downright revolutionary. Smith adds that Korea’s female-centric literature is a particularly interesting field to watch these days: “Korean society is changing all the time, becoming more globalized. The role of women is a particularly interesting one, I think—the way a Western reader might read a Korean book and think they have it lucky, but also get to wondering whether we’re really as free as we might like to think, or at least whether we’re using those freedoms as much as we might.”.

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