Having spent quite some time working in the publishing industry, I've always been a big fan of nicely designed book covers. One thing I particularly love is how the same book can have such different jackets across the world. There's something very peculiar about the design of Korean book covers although I can't quite put words on it. Maybe it's the hangul typography or its strange cuteness which always manages to avoid being childish. Here are some covers I especially like:
Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
Karel Capek's classic 1936 sci-fi novel
Palpasa Cafe by Narayan Wagle
The name on the tip of the tongue
A small tale by French Goncourt Prize laureate Pascal Quignard
Classic novel by German writer Patrick Süskind
Not yet translated in English, by Nobel Prize Winner J.M.-G. Le Clezio (who now teaches in Korea)
A familiar world
Hwang Sok Yong's latest novel (not yet translated in English)
The journey stops in India
Colorful
Aoi Garden
To the Breeding Farm
The rules of studying
The sadness of cold and slippery things
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