No synopsis available. Not listed on Amazon.co.uk. You’ll have to get it from US Amazon or Seoul Selection. [Read More]
Booklist: Korean literature in translation (page 27)
Old Man River (K-Fiction 011)
No synopsis available Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Time Difference (K-Fiction 010)
No synopsis available Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Ok-hwa (K-Fiction 009)
No synopsis available Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Homecoming (K-Fiction 008)
No synopsis available. Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Danny (K-fiction 007)
No synopsis available Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Kong’s Garden (K-Fiction 006)
No synopsis available Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Maninbo: Peace & War
From the publisher’s website: Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, ‘Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.’ Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives) is the title of a … [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]
Rainy Days (Bi-lingual, Vol 109 – Korea After the Korean War)
No synopsis available Available on Kindle; also included in the collection Flowers of Fire. [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]