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Archives: Books (page 124)
My husband the poet
“wonderful translation . . . It’s the best book of prose I’ve read from Korea. nothing like it, nothing close.” (Professor David McCann, Harvard University) A deeply personal account of life as a poet’s wife is now available in English. Mok Sun-ok, poet Chon Sang-pyong’s wife of over 20 years, writes about her years with … [Read More]
The Daily Life of Ku-Poh the Novelist
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Sunlight, Moonlight
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The Cross of Shaphan
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The Sound Of Thunder
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A Toy City
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The Other Side of Dark Remembrance
The Other Side of Dark Remembrance was the winner of the 8th Annual Yi Sang Literature Prize in 1984. This novella falls into the fiction genre dealing with the division of North and South Korea. Stories of this genre often hold ideological conflicts and their ramifications at their center; rather than treating these issues upfront, … [Read More]
Appointment with my brother
An Appointment with My Brother is a story of the author’s imagined meeting with his stepbrother, his father’s son from his second marriage in North Korea after his defection during the Korean War. The narrator, the protagonist of the story, uses his connections and money to arrange his younger brother’s visit to Yenji, in the … [Read More]
The Chronicle of Manchwidang
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The Cry Of The Magpies
“The Cry of the Magpies” is one of Kim, Dong-ni’s most famous and widely read short stories. From the depressing condition of life represented in the story by combining poverty, war, chronic illness, and hopelessness emerges various intensified forms of love, desire and longing. The cry of magpies, which is believed to foretell either the … [Read More]
The Ma Rok Biographies
The Ma Rok Biographies is representative of Seo, Giwon’s later historical fiction. Ma Rok, which stands for the various protagonists with the surname of Ma in this series of five short stories (of which only three are included here), actually means “the horse and the deer” in Chinese. This odd combination of the two animals … [Read More]
Hong Gildong
This book includes two short stories by South Korean writer Seo Hajin: “Hong Gildong” and “The Woodcutter and the Nymph.” In “Hong Gildong,” Seo draws from an early Korean tale to tell the story of a man wading through a midlife crisis. After seeing a psychiatrist, he seeks release from his present condition and wishes … [Read More]
The Rainy Spell
The Rainy Spell, first published in 1978, is still rated as one of the finest short stories to deal with the Korean War experience. Because it was a war in which a homogeneous race slaughtered each other, the Korean War left a wound in the Korean psyche that is still not completely healed after half … [Read More]
A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball
A dwarf named Kim Bu-ri lives with his family in a poor neighborhood of Seoul. When the neighborhood is redeveloped by the government, Kim’s house is demolished. Author Cho Se-hui writes about the tragedies the family members face through the points of view of the dwarf’s three children. The work depicts the political oppression and … [Read More]