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15 OF THE BEST KOREAN WAR BOOKS EVER PUBLISHED
Sometimes what history class teaches us just isn’t enough. I know that for me, the Korean War was little more than a chapter in a history textbook. Thankfully, there are plenty of supplemental materials out there for those who want to educate themselves. Though this war only lasted three years (... -
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The Shadow of ArmsHwang Suk-Young
/2014A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author's experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides... -
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Unparalleled Insight into War: The Shadow of Arms by Hwang Sok-yong
/Republic of KoreaNOV 15 2014There is a line in the first few pages of Hwang Sok-yong’s The Shadow of Arms that carries with it the brunt of the Vietnam War: “Just two weeks of carnage, of thirst and heat had transformed the fighting men into burnt-out tin cans.” Hwang’s language is unadorned and direct, his metaphor...
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Peace Under HeavenMan-sik Ch'ae
/2012This is the first English translation of a much beloved satirical novel. -
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The camellias
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A walk in the mountains
/ // Literature - Korean literature - Contemporary fiction2004An apathetic husband and a wife's slow awakening to a harsh reality share center stage in Suh Eun-young's fascinating short story A Walk in the Mountains. Partly a post-modern detective story of a... -
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My Very Last Possession and Other Stories
/ // Literature - Korean literature - Contemporary fiction1999Stories from Korea. In Thus Ended My Days Watching over the House, a woman feels liberated when police take away her domineering husband on suspicion of a crime, A Certain Barbarity is on toilets as... -
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A toy city
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The sound of thunder
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The Land of the Banished
/ // Literature - Korean literature - Contemporary fiction2012This book may be one of the most depressing books in Korean modern literature, and to say that is to say quite a great deal. It is also one of the best and most touching as its depressing quality...