Modern Korean Fiction

Bruce Fulton

• Hardcover | Engels
• To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses po... Lees meer

Sunset

Manshik Ch'ae

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Ch'ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by ... Lees meer

River of Fire and Other Stories

Chŏnghŭi O

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she ha... Lees meer

River of Fire and Other Stories

Chŏnghŭi O

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she ha... Lees meer

Togani

Ji-Young Gong

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Korean Fiction
• Atmospheric and fast-paced, this novel of manners set in a provincial South Korean city leads readers through the silent corridors of a school for hea... Lees meer

The Moving Fortress

Hwang Sunwon

• Hardcover | Engels
• This novel offers a panorama of Korea and Koreans coming to terms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. Contemporary events, such as the... Lees meer

The Red Room

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Korean Fiction
• Modern Korean fiction is to a large extent a literature of witness to the historic upheavals of twentieth-century Korea. Often inspired by their own e... Lees meer

The Catcher in the Loft

Un-Yŏng Ch'ŏn

• Paperback | Engels
• Ch'ŏn Un-yŏng is a South Korean writer. The Catcher in the Loft is her first book of fiction to appear in English translation. Bruce Fulton is the ina... Lees meer

Another Man's City

In-Ho Choi

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Korean Literature | nr. 14
• "Another Man's City "is structured as a virtual-reality narrative manipulated by an entity referred to variously as the Invisible Hand or Big Brother.... Lees meer

Sunset

Manshik Ch'ae

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Ch'ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by ... Lees meer

The Red Room

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Korean Fiction
• Modern Korean fiction is to a large extent a literature of witness to the historic upheavals of twentieth-century Korea. Often inspired by their own e... Lees meer

The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories

Bruce Fulton

• Hardcover | Engels
• This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twe... Lees meer

Trees on a Slope

Sun-Wŏn Hwang

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Korean Fiction
• Hwang Sun-won (1915-2000) is one of modern Korea's masters of narrative prose. Trees on a Slope (1960) is his most accomplished novel--one of the few ... Lees meer

The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women

• Paperback | Engels
• These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s-2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century wom... Lees meer

The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories

Bruce Fulton

• Paperback | Engels
• This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twe... Lees meer

Modern Korean Fiction

Bruce Fulton

• Paperback | Engels
• To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses po... Lees meer

There a Petal Silently Falls

Ch'oe Yun

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life. Readers celebrat... Lees meer

The Moving Fortress

Hwang Sunwon

• Paperback | Engels
• This novel offers a panorama of Korea and Koreans coming to terms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. Contemporary events, such as the... Lees meer

The Human Jungle

Cho Chongnae

• Paperback | Engels
• Equal parts muckraking novel, transnational love story, and socially engaged panorama, Cho Chongnae's The Human Jungle portrays China on the verge of ... Lees meer

Lost Souls

Sunwon Hwang

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• These captivating short stories portray three major periods in modern Korean history: the forces of colonial modernity during the late 1930s; the post... Lees meer