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  • The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women

    These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s–2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us into the homes, families, lives and psyches of Korean women, men, and children.In the earliest of the stories, Pak Wan-so, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Ploughshares Fall 2022

    The Fall 2022 Issue of Ploughshares, edited by Ladette Randolph, features nine longform pieces by Frances de Pontes Peebles, Daniel Peña, E. K. Ota, Aisha Bhoori, Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton, John Fulton, Micah Perks, Ben Stroud, and Emily Waples.Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

  • Chinatown

    by Oh Jung-hee ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A selection of the best short stories by Oh Jung-hee, one of South Korea’s most influential writersIn this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the city’s Chinese community comes of age among ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Human Jungle

    by Cho Chongnae ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    Cho Chongnae is one of South Korea's greatest living writers, and yet much of his work remains untranslated. This is the most ambitious project yet to bring his work to an English-speaking audience.Cho's novels have sold more than 16 million copies in South Korea thus far, a record in Korean publishing.The Human Jungle has been translated into Chinese and was being reviewed by China's censors as ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction

    Contemporary Korean Fiction

    An anthology of contemporary Korean fiction including: "The Wife and Children"; "The Post Horse Curse"; "Mountains"; "Kapitan Ri"; "The Winter"; and "A Dream of Good Fortune." ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Mina

    by Kim Sagwa ...
    Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    “Kim Sagwa is South Korea’s young, brilliant, fearless writer.” — Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War“She doesn’t know what to do, and that amounts to a state of torture.”Crystal toils day and night to earn top grades at her cram school. She’s also endlessly texting, shopping, drinking, vexing her boyfriends, cranking up her mp3s, and fantasizing about her next slice of cheesecake. Her non- stop ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • One Left

    A Novel

    by Kim Soom ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    A powerful tale of trauma and endurance that transformed a nation’s understanding of Korean comfort womenDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Togani

    Series series 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 hearing-impaired children and the city’s foggy back streets and murky centers of power to a stirring courtroom climax. Gong Ji-young’s Togani (The Crucible), published in Korean in 2009, is based on a historic case of child sexual abuse at a state-run ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • River of Fire and Other Stories

    Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton ...
    by Chŏnghŭi O ...
    Series series 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 has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal literary establishment in Korea, and her work has invited rich comparisons with the achievements of Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, and Virginia Woolf.These nine stories range from O Chonghui's first ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Lost Souls

    Stories

    by Sunwon Hwang ...
    Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton ...
    Series series 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 postcolonial struggle to rebuild society after four decades of oppression, emasculation, and cultural exile (1945 to 1950); and the attempt to reconstruct a shattered land and a traumatized nation after the Korean War.Lost Souls echoes the exceptional ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Sunset

    A Ch'ae Manshik Reader

    by Manshik Ch'ae ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    Series series 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 his distinctive voice and colloquial style. Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader is the first English-language anthology of his works and features a variety of genres—novella, short fiction, anecdotal essay, travel writing, children’s story, one-act play, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Sunset

    A Ch'ae Manshik Reader

    by Manshik Ch'ae ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    Series series 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 his distinctive voice and colloquial style. Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader is the first English-language anthology of his works and features a variety of genres—novella, short fiction, anecdotal essay, travel writing, children’s story, one-act play, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD