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Review: Sweet Potato, Korean short story collection, is a gritty introduction to a little known period of East Asian history

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Article
http://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2114273/review-sweet-potato-korean-short-story-collection-gritty-introduction
Journal
South China Morning Post
Issued Date
October 09, 2017
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
HONG KONG
City
-
Book
Sweet Potato
Writer
Kim Dongin
Translator
Grace Jung

About the Author

  • Kim Dong-in
  • Birth : 1900 ~ 1951
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Dongin
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김동인
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 50
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  • English(English)

As contemporary Korean literature receives increasing acclaim in English-language circles – Han Kang’s The Vegetarian won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize – it is perhaps inevitable that efforts are being made to introduce older Korean classics to the English language mainstream. One of these is Sweet Potato, a newly translated volume of short stories by Kim Tongin (or Kim Dong-in) written mostly in the Japanese colonial period between the wars.

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