“What an unbearable hell. But I feel like I didn’t avoid it. I didn’t give up… I guess I can be proud that I managed to survive this hell. That’s right!” Judas was thinking about this, while he lost consciousness, trying to strain a few drops of honey and meanings from what he had just … [Read More]
Archives: Books (page 131)
In the Shade of the Oleander (Bi-lingual, Vol 40 – Tradition)
“There was a spoon in her room. It was a spoon she’d brought from home when she married. It was a brass spoon with its edge worn out and thinned like a crescent moon. That spoon was hung on the iron-ring handle of her bedroom door the first night she moved to her new home. … [Read More]
A Journey under the Moonlight (Bi-lingual, Vol 39 – Tradition)
“The man lifted his eyes up at the mound. In his mind he could see the corpse of his wife. She was flat on her back, stark naked, a dagger stuck in her groin. Because she had their first baby her stomach had looked unusually bloated. The man felt powerless as his lips parted and … [Read More]
The Fragrant Well (Bi-lingual, Vol 38 – Tradition)
No synopsis available Available on Kindle [Read More]
A Brief Biography of Yuja (Bi-lingual, Vol 37 – Tradition)
“Today is the day Chae Gwang-seok went away a hundred days ago, and Yu Jae-pil, the man who arranged for his headstone, will reunite with him on the other side of the river. ‘How’ve you been?’ ‘Welcome, brother. I’ve settled down in this neck of the woods and prepared the way for you. Say hello, … [Read More]
Three Days of Autumn, 1948 (Bi-lingual, Vol 36 – Tradition)
Not available at UK Amazon hence no Kindle version. No synopsis available [Read More]
I Live in Bongcheon-dong (Bi-lingual, Vol 33 – Seoul)
No synopsis available. Currently not available at Amazon UK, though the US site has it, and you can usually rely on Seoul Selection. [Read More]
Traversing Afternoon (Bi-lingual, Vol 32 – Seoul)
No synopsis available. [Read More]
The Dark Jar within the Snowman (Bi-lingual, Vol 31 – Seoul)
“Before I knew it, the sun was setting. I returned to the nine-family house where by now my secret had surely been long exposed. I took a few deep breaths in front of the gate. I could only think about not wanting Mom to beat me with briquette tongs. But as I walked on the … [Read More]
Gingko Love (Bi-lingual, Vol 30 – South and North)
“The purest kind of love is that of our comrades, which cannot but be twisted because of the division of our fatherland. Mr. Cho, did you know that gingkoes are either male or female, unlike most trees, which are both? But the male and female gingkoes rarely stand side-by-side. They grow old alone for hundreds … [Read More]
Spring at Silsangsa Temple (Bi-lingual, Vol 29 – South and North)
“In that moment, the full moon was hiding behind the clouds, and the world darkened. Since I couldn’t understand how the bicycle could have disappeared when she was walking back out, I poked and looked around here and there. Have I seen a phantom? The full moon came out from behind the clouds, and the … [Read More]
Land of Excrement (Bi-lingual, Vol 28 – South and North)
No synopsis available [Read More]
The Suffering of Two Generations (Bi-lingual, Vol 27 – South and North)
“Jinsu, holding the crunches in one hand and the mackerel in the other, slithered up on his father’s back. Mando, his arm turned behind him, clasped his son’s only leg. “You’ll have to wind your arms around my neck.” Jinsu, one eye closed tight, as if he felt really bad about the situation, wrapped his … [Read More]
Panmunjom (Bi-lingual, Vol 26 – South and North)
“I—I would like to tell you something,” she stammered, as if mustering all of her remaining courage. “What?” “I have a duty to perform here. It’s something I have to do. You can help me, can’t you? This is our car, right? Please make a decision. What would you like to do? Tell me and … [Read More]
In the Trunk (Bi-lingual, Vol 25 – Love and Love Affairs)
No synopsis available. Available on Kindle [Read More]
Stab (Bi-lingual, Vol 23 – Love and Love Affairs)
part of the story: So you become a professor and I a professor’s wife, she’d said during one of their quarrels in the past. Don’t you think our dreams are so cheap and pathetic? What could we do? That’s the way our lives turned out. We just have to live with it. They’d clung to … [Read More]