The Housemaid
Native title: 하우스메이드
Series: Book 1
Author: McFadden, Freida
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2023 | Pages: 388 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91639
Translated
I moved into a billionaire's home as a housekeeper, hiding my criminal record. But I wasn't the only one harboring a secret.
After weeks of living and eating in the backseat of a car after my release, I finally had a last chance: a job as a housekeeper in a wealthy family. It didn't matter that I had to live in a cramped attic with no windows and a door that could only be locked from the outside.
My first task was to clean up the kitchen, which my landlady, Nina, always dressed in white, had left in shambles. This routine continued, but Nina seemed oblivious to her actions, and rumors spread that she was mentally ill. Despite all the bizarre demands, I persevered, working to avoid being fired.
Then one day, a taciturn foreign gardener spoke to me with a serious expression. I couldn't understand it, but I later looked it up and found it meant 'danger'. Immediately afterward, I tried to turn the handle to leave the attic, but the door suddenly wouldn't open. 'Are they locking me in? Let's calm down'.
They still don't know my secret: who I really am and what I can do
Wonangui kkum
Native title: 원앙의 꿈 현대문학 짧은 이야기 10
Translated title: The Dream of Mandarin Ducks
Author: Hoon, Sim
Genre: Social Novel / Short Stories
Year: 2026 | Pages: 220 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91648
Sim Hoon, a modern Korean novelist, is renowned for his lyrical yet realistic portrayals of human experiences of love, marriage, loss, and frustration amidst the oppressive reality of colonial Korea.
His masterpiece, 'The Dream of Mandarin Ducks', calmly depicts the gradual collapse of characters who dream of ideal love before the walls of social conditions and institutions, strikingly revealing that love cannot be sustained solely by individual emotions.
Rather than directly denouncing the grand tragedies of an era, Sim Hoon's novels naturally reveal the weight of reality through the cracks in the emotions and relationships of individuals living in that era. He unfailingly captures the social pressures and human suffering that permeate the private realms of love and marriage, and delicately depicts how everyday choices and hesitations can alter the course of life.
He also captures moments of love's excitement and frustration, hope and resignation intersecting with restrained prose, quietly conveying the vulnerability and compassion felt by humans in the face of reality
Gopseulmeori sonyeo
Native title: 곱슬머리 소녀
Translated title: Curly-haired Girl
Author: Jae-dong, Shin
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2026 | Pages: 256 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91663
The story of a single person's life, one that transcended an era of migration and loss, and how the curly-haired girl came to light
This novel begins with a man's question. Born in Japan and living as a Japanese, his name overlaps with Korean and American times. 'Curly-haired Girl' traces the lives of his grandmother and father, whom he encounters as he searches for his roots, and the lives of immigrants. It then traces back in time to the life of Baek Gwang-seon, a woman who crossed the Pacific Ocean. Her journey from Jemulpo to Honolulu and back to the American continent is a record of immigration, labor, faith, and loss, and a portrait of a generation that was forced to be lumped together as an immigrant generation.
'Curly-haired Girl' illuminates the choices and silences made at the lowest levels of life, not at the center of grand historical narratives, restoring the lives of individuals pushed outside the grand narrative like a garden. It is the unrecorded life of a woman, a day in the life of an immigrant who disappeared without a name. Beyond an individual's family history, it quietly captures the inner lives of those forced to live at the borders of nationality and language. As scattered names connect, the story reaches us today, turning the page
Gaseumeuro uneun sae
Native title: 가슴으로 우는 새
Translated title: A Bird Crying with Its Heart
Author: Mun-geun, Jeon
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2026 | Pages: 338 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91664
Silence was a choice for survival, and memory was a resistance to staying alive. Leaving behind the layers of scars, she never gave up, moving forward, step by step!
Misuk, who lived in a rural village near Baekun Mountain, grew up and exchanged marriage promises with her love. Dreaming of a bright future, she was suddenly visited by Dalsu, a former guerrilla fighter, who told her the shocking story of her birth and tragic fate...
Some cries are silent. They are choked in the throat, lost in the lips, and ultimately resonate only within the heart. This novel is the story of those unspoken cries.
The times demanded silence, and silence became a condition of survival. Only those who remained silent survived, and only those who forgot could move on. But everyone knew: forgetting was not the end, but the beginning of a deeper wound. The characters in this novel endured by remaining silent, surviving by persevering, but ultimately, their lives begin to falter again in the face of the weeping that builds within their hearts.
'The Bird That Cries with Its Heart' is not the narrative of an individual, but a record of emotions that have transcended an era. Faces unorganized by history, lives relegated to statistics and chronology, and deaths never fully mourned by anyone. This novel cautiously poses questions atop the rubble: did we truly deserve to cry, or do we still live without it?
Sarangdo bogwoni doelkkayo?
Native title: 사랑도 복원이 될까요?
Translated title: Can Love Be Restored?
Author: Ra-eum, Song
Genre: Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 416 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91655
'Can Love Be Restored?' is a comical and touching romance set in Gurye, Jeollanam-do. This is the first full-length romance novel by Song Ra-eum, author of 'The OK Super Nitrogen Theft Case' and 'Insect Detective Kangchung'.
Drawing on the impressions and fond memories she received during a vacation to Gurye several years ago, the novel tells the story of a love that has consciously or unconsciously sprouted and nurtured during her subsequent trips to the region. The two main characters, Hwang Seol, a woman who repairs old books, and Jeong Yu-geon, a man who protects an injured bear, are both people who restore things. However, they are clumsy at restoring something within themselves.
The story of two people who meet through fate and move beyond coincidence to inevitability, a story of how they encounter misunderstandings and conflicts, ultimately healing each other's wounds and restoring their 'relationships' and 'selves'. A story that conveys that love is a process of mending an imperfect life together, 'Can Love Be Restored?'
The author, who has written impressive fairy tales, says, 'Love is not salvation, but an adventure of the heart toward growth,' and argues that romance and fairy tales share similarities. Here is a 'love fairy tale for adults'
Keopigoedam
Native title: 커피괴담
Translated title: Coffee Ghost Story
Author: Riku, Onda
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 324 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91660
Translated
We invite you to 'Coffee Ghost Stories', a gathering of eerie ghost stories that unfold as they visit old Japanese cafes.
Record company producer Damon Tsukazaki receives an invitation one day from his friend Onoe in Kyoto. Braving the sweltering heat, Damon heads to an old Kyoto cafe, where he encounters Onoe and another friend, Mizushima. Onoe suggests to his friends, whom he hasn't seen in a while, that they hold a gathering called 'Coffee Ghost Stories', where they will tour cafes and tell each other ghost stories. Damon, unable to resist, sits down and listens...
The quiet moments of an old café, moments imbued with a strange energy, and the stories the author personally experienced and heard leave a gentle yet profound lingering impression, drawing the reader into a chilling world
Fortune Telling
Native title: 포춘 텔링 운세와 미래에 관한 다섯 편의 소설
Author: Hee-sun, Kim
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 240 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91647
The desire to glimpse the future: five stories about fortune telling.
The first book in the anthology 'Neuseun', 'Fortune Telling', brings together novels about fortune telling by five authors: Kim Hee-sun, Jang Jin-young, Park So-min, Kwon Hye-young, and Kim Sa-sa. Neuseun, a new novel series from 'Imagination', embodies the ambition to blur the gap between everyday life and literature, as well as the boundaries between genres. Within a free literary framework, this curated collection of loose novels offers readers a diverse range of experiences.
Fortune-telling, a compound word of 'fortune' and 'telling', can be interpreted as a divination or fortune-telling, or a prophecy about fortune or the future. This anthology, which offers a glimpse into the five authors' brilliant perspectives on fortune telling, not only explores superstitions like sticking coins to the soles of feet, fortune-telling, and fortune cookies, but also reveals the authors' own perspectives on fortune telling and their own perspectives
Eoduun sup
Native title: 어두운 숲
Translated title: Dark Forest
Author: Geon-woo, Jeon
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 280 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91662
This time, it's 'The Forest'. Jeon Geon-woo, who brought a refreshing shock to the Korean horror genre, has released his latest work, 'Dark Forest', following his long-form novel 'Dark Water' published last year. Since his debut, author Jeon has captivated readers across the horror, mystery, and thriller genres. This sequel, which continues the legacy of 'Dark Water', delivers a breathtaking plot with sophisticated psychological descriptions and a terrifying atmosphere.
Web novelist Min Si-hyun discovers 'Dark Forest' with friends he met on a ghost tour. It's a place where bizarre incidents recur online, earning it the moniker 'Korean Aokigahara'. Min, who experiences paranormal psychometric abilities through a Swiss Army knife he picks up, encounters a terrifying and unimaginable occult ritual. Set in a gloomy and eerie setting, the second story of Min Si-hyeon and Park Soo-moo's shaman, Yoon Dong-wook, promises a tension and immersion rivaling that of his predecessor, 'Dark Water'.
Jeon Geon-woo's signature delicate psychological portrayal and rapid-fire plot create the quintessence of horror fiction. 'Dark Forest' once again draws readers into the darkness of the abyss
Bimil sogui bimil
Native title: 비밀 속의 비밀 1
Translated title: The Secret of Secrets
Series: Part 1
Author: Brown, Dan
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 472 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91637
Translated
Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she's been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon's world spirals out of control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves.
But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a spectre from that dark past. He must use all of his arcane knowledge to decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine.
Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily deliver them. This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for the future of humanity itself.
The Secret Of Secrets is Dan Brown's first novel for over eight years and sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time pitting his wits against a conspiracy which will test even his considerable brainpower and take him to the edge of losing all that he holds dear
The Housemaid's Secret
Native title: 하우스메이드 2 하우스메이드의 비밀
Series: Book 2
Author: McFadden, Freida
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 400 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91640
Translated
'Never enter the guest room'. Millie, the protagonist of the best-selling book 'Housemaid', is back!
Her criminal record still makes it difficult for her to find a job. Her babysitting job, barely covering her rent, has been cut short by an unexpected incident. Just when she's lost track of how to live, a savior appears. She's hired as a housekeeper in a penthouse in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan, New York. Douglas, the CEO of Coinstock, lives there and seems like the perfect man. At least, he seems so at first.
His wife, Wendy, never leaves the guest room on the second floor, and Millie is forbidden from entering it. Strange noises emanating from the guest room, dark red stains on the laundry, a bloody handprint on the sink. Feeling suspicious at home, Millie receives a call from a recruiting agency informing her that her job ad hasn't been posted yet due to credit card issues. A chill runs down her spine. How did Douglas know to contact her? It was clear that this couple was hiding something. And Millie is the type of person who can't let something like that pass her by. Absolutely not.
An intense psychological thriller with twists and turns!
