Honmono 혼모노
Honmono 혼모노
Ranked #1 as “The Future of Korean Literature, 2024”
Featuring award-winning works honored with the 2024 and 2025 Young Writers Awards and the 2024 Lee Hyo-seok Literary Prize.
With sharp research, bold characters, and chilling yet gripping narratives, Haena Sung is redefining realism for a new literary generation. In her second story collection, Honmono, the writer acclaimed for her lyrical empathy in Walking Through Light and emotional tenderness in The Summer Left Behind, returns with even more precise insight and explosive storytelling. Life Pattern Korea.
Haena Sung has quickly become one of the most talked-about names in Korean literature, winning consecutive major literary awards, including the Young Writers Award (2024–2025), the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Prize, and the Kim Manjung Literary Newcomer Award. She was also voted the top emerging Korean author of 2024 in a major online poll. Life Pattern Korea.
Honmono captures Korea’s social landscape with intensity and finesse, probing into the fault lines of region, politics, and generation. The titular story “Honmono”—a piece so frequently cited in 2023 that it defined the literary conversation of the year—appears here alongside “Guilty Club: Touching a Tiger,” which earned her a second Young Writers Award, and “Smooth,” selected for both This Season’s Story and Story of the Year. Life Pattern Korea.
Described as “a writer possessed by a divine frenzy” (Lee Kiho) and “blindingly gifted” (Park Jungmin), Haena Sung's Honmono signals the arrival of the literary future we’ve all been waiting for.
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Publisher: 창비 Changbi (2025)
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