Author: Yun Heung-gil
Translated by: Bruce Fulton, Choe Hae-chun, Ju-chan Fulton, Martin Holman, Suh Ji-moon
Publisher: Readers International, 1989
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A powerful and provocative young writer often at odds with South Korea’s literary establishment, Yun Heung-gil combines Dickensian humour and sympathy for the ne’er-do-wells and losers of South Korea’s get-ahead society.
The House of Twilight, his first-ever collection in English, includes portraits of contemporary life and two striking evocations of the Korean War: the title story and the novella The Rainy Spell.
Yun experienced the war as a child, and a child’s view serves him brilliantly to express his country’s trauma. Fuel, A Winter Commuter and other stories bring us up to the present day, and introduce an exciting new voice from Asia.
Source: back cover
Contents
Introduction – Martin Holman
The Rainy Spell, tr Suh Ji-moon
Fuel, tr Suh Ji-moon
The Man Who Was Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes, tr Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton
A Winter Commuter, tr Suh Ji-moon
Gang Beating, tr Ch’oe Hae-ch’un
The House of Twilight, tr Martin Holman