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Booklist: Korean literature in translation (page 29)
Escape (Bi-lingual, Vol 88 – The Naked in the Colony)
Currently unavailable in the UK, but you can find it in the compilation On the Eve of the Uprising [Read More]
A Lucky Day (Bi-lingual, Vol 87 – The Naked in the Colony)
Theoretically available separately, but difficult to find. Seoul Selection only seem to sell it as part of the 15 volume set, which is set 6 of their ongoing bilingual series. [Read More]
Potatoes (Bi-lingual, Vol 86 – The Naked in the Colony)
Theoretically available separately, but difficult to find. Seoul Selection only seem to sell it as part of the 15 volume set, which is set 6 of their ongoing bilingual series. However, the story is available in many anthologies. [Read More]
In a Seed: Poems of Hyang-Ah Lee
From the publisher’s website: In a Seed contains 60 poems by the author, which best represent the poet’s creative life over a period of fifty years. The poems of Hyang-Ah Lee are very touching, for they have inner strength to bravely cope with agonies without disregarding the realities of life teetering all the time on … [Read More]
Alone Over There (Bi-lingual, Vol 85 – Aesthetic Priests)
Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Sakmae and Jami (Bi-lingual, Vol 84 – Aesthetic Priests)
Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Song of Everlasting Spring (Bi-lingual, Vol 83 – Aesthetic Priests)
Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Looking for a Horse (Bi-lingual, Vol 82 – Aesthetic Priests)
The author has such a profound respect for all life, treating animals as characters of their own, that he was led to say about his wish to write about animals: “I wait for the day I can write properly about his sad life.” If such is his compassion for an animal that has lived a … [Read More]
A Warm Family
From the publisher’s website: From A Warm Family… “ The sun is going down, and in the pureness of silence I drop the day’s anchor. As I shed the sweat-soaked clothes stars in the night sky draw near to me to be my friends, and my family.…” —Kim Hu-Ran In this collection of poems, Kim Hu-Ran … [Read More]
Grand Master (Bi-lingual, Vol 81 – Aesthetic Priests)
Not readily available in UK. [Read More]
Tuesday River (Bi-lingual, Vol 80 – Fate)
Not available in UK at present [Read More]
Insult (Bi-lingual, Vol 79 – Fate)
Not available in UK at present [Read More]
Relics (Bi-lingual, Vol 78 – Fate)
From the back of the book, by literary critic Jeong Hong-Su: Death hass been a major issue in Ku Hyo-seo’s novels. In this particular story, death goes beyond the existential dimensions of the individual; it is expanded as a thesis encompassing history and society. The writer accomplishes a difficult feat for a short story by … [Read More]
Father and Son (Bi-lingual, Vol 77 – Fate)
No synopsis available. Not available on Kindle. [Read More]
Losing a Sister (Bi-lingual, Vol 76 – Fate)
Hard to obtain outside of Korea. Try Seoul Selection, though they only seem to sell it as part of a set that includes 14 other volumes. Available via Amazon US, but no Kindle version available. [Read More]