No synopsis available Read Charles Montgomery’s review for an indication of the contents [Read More]
Archives: Books (page 127)
Collected Short Stories from Korea
According to Charles Montgomery, this is the second compilation of Korean translated fiction. The collection includes the following stories An Su-gil: Annals of a Ranch Choe Cheong-hui: Chomnye Choi Tae-ung: Blood Phlegm Chu Yo-seop: Mama and the Boarder Chun Young-Taik: The Cow Chun Pi-Sook: Home-coming Hahn Moo-Sook: Halo around the Moon Kim Song-Han: Coming Home … [Read More]
A Stray Bullet (Bi-lingual, Vol 110 – Korea After the Korean War)
The last in the Asia Publishers bi-lingual series. The story can also be found in Flowers of Fire and The Drizzle. [Read More]
The Poetry of John (Bi-lingual, Vol 108 – Korea After the Korean War)
No synopsis available. Hard to find separately in the UK, but available in a couple of anthologies. [Read More]
Tŭngsin-bul (Bi-lingual, Vol 107 – Korea After the Korean War)
Not easy to get in the UK. Included also in the hard-to find anthology Loess Valley. [Read More]
The Cloudburst (Bi-lingual, Vol 106 – Korea After the Korean War)
Rain Shower, also called Shower in English, 0r Sonagi (in Romanized Korean), is a short story written by Hwang Sun-won in 1959 (Hwang also wrote the seminal novel The Descendants of Cain – a horrific story of greed and betrayal). Sonagi is a brief but a heavy rain shower that suddenly comes down usually on … [Read More]
Kapitan Ri (Bi-lingual, Vol 105 – Before and After Liberation
Hard to obtain separately in the UK, but you can find it in at least three anthologies. [Read More]
Barley (Bi-lingual, Vol 104 – Before and After Liberation)
Not easily available in the UK, but the story is also included in On the Eve of the Uprising [Read More]
Leaves of Grass (Bi-lingual, Vol 103 – Before and After Liberation)
Not readily available in the UK, and it doesn’t seem to be in any anthology at the moment. [Read More]
Two Bankruptcies (Bi-lingual, Vol 102 – Before and After Liberation)
No synopsis available, and not readily available in the UK. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be in any anthologies either. [Read More]
Juvesenility (Bi-lingual, Vol 101 – Before and After Liberation)
Not readily available separately in the UK, but you can get it in the Chae Mansik Reader: Sunset [Read More]
Seaside Village (Bi-lingual, Vol 100 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
No synopsis available, and hard to find in the UK. Instead, try tracking it down in Good People [Read More]
Mama and the Boarder (Bi-lingual, Vol 99 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
Available on Kindle and also in A Ready-Made Life [Read More]
An Idiot’s Delight (Bi-lingual, Vol 98 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
Available on Kindle in the UK Also available in A Ready-Made Life [Read More]
Samnyong the Mute (Bi-lingual, Vol 97 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
Available in On the Eve of the Uprising, but otherwise hard to get in the UK. [Read More]
Spring, Spring (Bi-lingual, Vol 96 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
Hard to find in the UK. You can also find it in Modern Korean Literature — An Anthology 1908-65 [Read More]