Korean literature

Book Reviews

• Cho Se-hui: The Dwarf
  - stories from the dark side of 1970s South Korea
• Hwang Sun-won: The Descendants of Cain
  - love and greed as land reform tears apart a Korean village
• Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope*
  - a novel of the Korean war
• Young-Ha Kim: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
  - art, sex, and death in Seoul
• Peter H. Lee: The Record of the Black Dragon Year
  - popular fiction from the 16th century Japanese invasion of Korea
• Yi Mun-yol: The Poet*
  - a marginal poet in 19th century Korea
• Yi Mun-yol: Our Twisted Hero*
  - a struggle for power in a Korean classroom
• Yi Sang: The Wings
  - dark Korean stories of love, sex, and illness

See also: Chinese literature | Japanese literature | Korea | world literature