Korean literature

Book Reviews

• Ch'oe In-ho: Another Man's City*
  - is K stuck inside a virtual reality?
• Cho Chongnae: The Human Jungle
  - Korean expats doing business in China
• Cho Se-hui: The Dwarf
  - stories from the dark side of 1970s South Korea
• Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton: The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea
  - stories by Pak Wan-so, O Chong-hui and Im Ch'or-u
• Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton: The Future of Silence; Wayfarer
  Fiction by Korean Women
  New Fiction by Korean Women
• Bruce Fulton, Youngmin Kwon: Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology*
  - a superb introduction to 20th century Korean literature
• Bruce Fulton: Waxen Wings
  The Acta Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from 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
• Jang Eun-Jin: No One Writes Back
  - around Korea with a blind guide-dog
• Jung Mi-Kyung: My Son's Girlfriend
  - seven stories from contemporary Korea
• Kim Young-Ha: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
  - art, sex, and death in Seoul
• Yung-Hee Kim: Questioning Minds
  Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers
• Peter H. Lee: The Record of the Black Dragon Year
  - popular fiction from the 16th century Japanese invasion of Korea
• David R. McCann: Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture
  Volume 1: 2008; Volume 8: 2015
• Cho Nam-Joo: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
  - a woman's life in modern South Korea
• Park Min-Gyu: Pavane for a Dead Princess
  - blunt and subtle, love story and social critique
• Park Wan-Suh: Lonesome You
  - short stories about aging and being old
• Shin Kyung-Sook: Please Look After Mom
  - the life of a Korean woman and her family
• Yi Mun-yol: The Poet*
  - a marginal poet in 19th century Korea
• Yi Mun-yol: Son of Man
  - a theological-historical detective novel
• 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
• Yom Sang-seop: Three Generations
  - tensions in a bourgeois Korean family around 1930

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

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