An occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War. This novel is based on the authors own experience in his early teens in Daegu, in 1954, and depicts six fami...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Jun-2002, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: White Pine Press, ISBN-13: 9781893996205)
Twenty-one poets, male and female, North Korean and South Korean, well-known and long forgotten, appear in this collection, the first of its kind in English. The poems reflect the reality of living in a country torn in half by political ideol...Daugiau...
In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this book takes a cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war, an approach that especially features Korean voices. Th...Daugiau...
Eleven essays take an innovative cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural approach to the Korean War in presenting multiple views of the forgotten war and its aftermath from Asian as well as American perspectives. Viewpoints include those of Korean poets...Daugiau...
These seven stories, dramatic and thought-provoking, provide a compelling picture of Korean life in the 1940s-1990s.Family and community ties, respect for tradition, survival in the face of repeated national disasters and wrenching social upheava...Daugiau...
These seven stories, dramatic and thought-provoking, provide a compelling picture of Korean life in the 1940s-1990s.Family and community ties, respect for tradition, survival in the face of repeated national disasters and wrenching social upheava...Daugiau...
This novel on the Communist land reform of the northern half of the Korean peninsula shortly after World War II depicts the disintegration of traditional relations between landlords and tenant farmers, and the regimes denunciations of intellectuals...Daugiau...
Hwang Sun-won is one of the most beloved and respected Korean writers of the twentieth century. This extraordinary novel is based on his own experience in his North Korean village at a historic turning point for modern Korea between the end of World...Daugiau...
A collection of 14 stories in the modernist style that did not evolve from earlier Korean traditions but was self-consciously developed in the early 20th century. Among them are the Seamans Chant, My Idiot Uncle, His Fathers Keeper, and the story t...Daugiau...
This anthology of short stories reflects the writers shared core experience of Koreas trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been ad...Daugiau...
