Winner of the 2024 Tolstoy Literary Prize! A novel that announces an unforgettable part of Korean history to the entire world. “A tiger—the very emblem of Korea’s independence—prowls through this novel, which now stands on the brink of a great future.” —Pavel Basinsky, Tolstoy Prize judge.
Praised by more than forty major English-language outlets such as The Times and The New York Times, translated into fourteen languages worldwide, and currently being adapted for a global streaming platform. Life Pattern Korea. This monumental debut by Korean-American author Juhea Kim earned the 2024 Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy) Prize for foreign literature. Opening with a fierce prologue in which man confronts tiger, Beasts of a Little Land charts half a century of intertwined fates amid the upheavals of 20th-century Korea. In 1917, during the Japanese occupation, a starving hunter in deep-snow mountains saves a Japanese officer from a tiger—an encounter that binds their lives forever. Life Pattern Korea. The novel’s sweeping narrative and rhythmic breadth have drawn comparisons to Tolstoy, while vivid descriptions whisk readers straight to colonial-era Seoul. Long-listed for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and three other awards, this “painted canvas in words” has inspired fans to dream-cast its characters—anticipation now answered by the work’s screen adaptation in progress. Life Pattern Korea. Published first in English, the Korean edition has been painstakingly re-rendered into the author’s mother tongue, earning raves that it “captures Korean sentiment so precisely one forgets it is a translation,” and securing its place as “essential reading for Koreans.”
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Author: 김주혜 저자, 박소현 번역 Publisher: 다산책방 Dasan (2023)
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