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  • 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

  • The Descendants of Cain

    by Sun-won Hwang, Ji-moonSuh, Julie Pickering ...
    Hwang Sun-won, perhaps the most beloved and respected Korean writer of the twentieth century, based this extraordinary novel on his own experience in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" -- the United States and the Soviet Union. In this story the Soviet-backed communist ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Descendants of Cain

    by Ji-moon Suh, Sun-won Hwang, Julie Pickering, J. Suh ...
    Hwang Sun-won, perhaps the most beloved and respected Korean writer of the 20th century, based this extraordinary novel on his own experiences in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" - the United States and the Soviet Union. In this story the Soviet-backed communist party ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Book of Masks

    by Hwang Sun-won ...
    Translated by Various ...
    The long life and career of Hwang Sun-won (1915-2000) spanned the whole trajectory of modern Korean history - Japanese domination, WWII, ideological strife, the Korean War and harsh division of the country, industrialization, military dictatorships and the protests against them. These events are reflected subtly in his stories, always emphasizing the resilience of the Korean people. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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