Last year was an amazing one for Korean literature in translation, with plenty of lively titles published. 2022 looks for the moment like it’s going to be a little quieter, but new publications sometimes pop out of nowhere, so this list of anticipated books for this year is almost bound to be proved incomplete. There … [Read More]
Publisher: Feminist Press
Selected publications
- Shin Kyung-sook: Violets tr Anton Hur 2022
- Grace M Cho: Tastes Like War 2021
- Kang Kyong-ae: From Wonso Pond tr Samuel Perry 2009
Book Review: From Wonso Pond
Kang Kyong-ae: From Wonso Pond Tr Samuel Perry Feminist Press, 2009 Originally published 1934 in the Donga Ilbo It’s the 1930s. In colonial Korea, economic development brings factories and work to Incheon, Seoul and other centres of population, while in the countryside the semi-feudal lifestyle continues. The local yangban plots which local lass to deflower … [Read More]