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  • 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

  • The Book of Masks

    by Hwang Sun-won ...
    Translated by Various ...
    The long life and career of Hwang Sun-won (1915-2000) spanned the whole trajectory of modern Korean history - Japanese domination, WWII, ideological strife, the Korean War and harsh division of the country, industrialization, military dictatorships and the protests against them. These events are reflected subtly in his stories, always emphasizing the resilience of the Korean people. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Republic of Wine

    A Novel

    by Mo Yan ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
    In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine—a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic events. When rumors reach the authorities that strange and excessive gourmandise is being practiced ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Sky, Wind, and Stars

    by Yun Dong-ju, Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, Steffen R. Richards ...
    Born and raised in northern Manchuria during the colonial period of Korea, Yun Dong-ju was a poet of the utmost purity, beauty, and sincerity. His posthumously published collection of poems under the title Sky, wind, stars, and poems is one of the all-time favorites of Korean readers. Wishing not to have so much as a speck of shame toward heaven until the day I die, I suffered, even when the wind ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women

    by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton, Pak Wan-So, Kim Chi-Won, O Chong-hui, Kong Son-ok, So Yong-un, Han Yujoo, Kim Sagwa, Ch’on Un-yong, Kim Ae-ran ...
    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

  • 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

  • A Letter Not Sent

    부치지 않은 편지

    by Jeong Ho-seung ...
    Series Book 1 - The Collected Poems of Jeong Ho-seung
    For the first time, English-language readers can access the poems of Jeong Ho-seung, who has become one of Korea's most beloved poets since his literary debut in 1973. A total of 216 poems spanning over 40 years of poetic growth were released in two collections, presented side by side in English and Korean. Loved by readers of all ages, from teenagers to those in their 60s and 70s, Jeong's poems ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ninth Building

    by Jingzhi Zou ...
    Translated by Jeremy Tiang ...
    Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about—the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such desperate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Though flowers fall I have never forgotten you

    꽃이 져도 나는 너를 잊은 적 없다

    by Jeong Ho-seung ...
    Series Book 2 - The Collected Poems of Jeong Ho-seung
    For the first time, English-language readers can access the poems of Jeong Ho-seung, who has become one of Korea's most beloved poets since his literary debut in 1973. A total of 216 poems spanning over 40 years of poetic growth were released in two collections, presented side by side in English and Korean. Loved by readers of all ages, from teenagers to those in their 60s and 70s, Jeong's poems ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A School for Fools

    by Sasha Sokolov ...
    Translated by Alexander Boguslawski ...
    By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” narrators: the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • From Wonso Pond

    by Kang Kyong-ae ...
    Translated by Samuel Perry ...
    "A vibrant account of the travails of Japanese colonialism as experienced by workers and women by the pioneering feminist writer of the Korean left." —Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between EmpiresA classic revolutionary novel of the 1930s and the first complete work written by a woman before the Korean War to be published in English, From Wonso Pond transforms the love triangle between three ... Read more

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  • The Rent Collector

    by Camron Wright ...
    Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working.Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered ... Read more

    $12.39 USD