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  • The Human Jungle

    by Cho Chongnae ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    Cho Chongnae is one of South Korea's greatest living writers, and yet much of his work remains untranslated. This is the most ambitious project yet to bring his work to an English-speaking audience.Cho's novels have sold more than 16 million copies in South Korea thus far, a record in Korean publishing.The Human Jungle has been translated into Chinese and was being reviewed by China's censors as ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories

    by Bruce Fulton ...
    ‘An ever-surprising and stylistically diverse anthology that will surely stand as the touchstone collection of Korean literature for decades to come’ Literary ReviewThis eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Togani

    Series series Modern Korean Fiction
    Atmospheric and fast-paced, this novel of manners set in a provincial South Korean city leads readers through the silent corridors of a school for hearing-impaired children and the city’s foggy back streets and murky centers of power to a stirring courtroom climax. Gong Ji-young’s Togani (The Crucible), published in Korean in 2009, is based on a historic case of child sexual abuse at a state-run ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Chinatown

    by Oh Jung-hee ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A selection of the best short stories by Oh Jung-hee, one of South Korea’s most influential writersIn this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the city’s Chinese community comes of age among ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women

    These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s–2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us into the homes, families, lives and psyches of Korean women, men, and children.In the earliest of the stories, Pak Wan-so, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • There a Petal Silently Falls

    Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun

    by Ch'oe Yun ...
    Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life. Readers celebrate her creative play with fantasy and admire her deep engagement with trauma, history, and the vagaries of remembrance.In this collection's title work, There a Petal Silently Falls, Ch'oe explores both the genesis and the aftershocks of historical ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature

    Edited by Joshua Mostow ...
    This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of ... Read more

    $130.49 USD

  • Sunset

    A Ch'ae Manshik Reader

    by Manshik Ch'ae ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Ch’ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by his distinctive voice and colloquial style. Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader is the first English-language anthology of his works and features a variety of genres—novella, short fiction, anecdotal essay, travel writing, children’s story, one-act play, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Ploughshares Fall 2022

    The Fall 2022 Issue of Ploughshares, edited by Ladette Randolph, features nine longform pieces by Frances de Pontes Peebles, Daniel Peña, E. K. Ota, Aisha Bhoori, Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton, John Fulton, Micah Perks, Ben Stroud, and Emily Waples.Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction

    Contemporary Korean Fiction

    An anthology of contemporary Korean fiction including: "The Wife and Children"; "The Post Horse Curse"; "Mountains"; "Kapitan Ri"; "The Winter"; and "A Dream of Good Fortune." ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Lost Souls

    Stories

    by Sunwon Hwang ...
    Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    These captivating short stories portray three major periods in modern Korean history: the forces of colonial modernity during the late 1930s; the postcolonial struggle to rebuild society after four decades of oppression, emasculation, and cultural exile (1945 to 1950); and the attempt to reconstruct a shattered land and a traumatized nation after the Korean War.Lost Souls echoes the exceptional ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • One Left

    A Novel

    by Kim Soom ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    A powerful tale of trauma and endurance that transformed a nation’s understanding of Korean comfort womenDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since ... Read more

    $21.89 USD