Rainy Spell and Other Korean Stories

Name: Rainy Spell and Other Korean Stories
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ISBN: 9780765601391

ISBN-10: 0765601397

ISBN-13: 9780765601391

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Ji-moon Suh, Suh Ji-Moon, Suh Ji-Moon

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This anthology of short stories by some of modern Korea's best-known writers reflects a rich variety of style and content, but they all manifest a shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal Confucian state, to Japanese colony culminating in the Pacific War, to battleground for the Korean War which inflicted horrific civilian casualties and a scarred landscape while leaving in its wake a still festering legacy of fraternal hostility, to a modernizing society that is struggling with economic success and democratization. While the intensity of these experiences and the relatively short period of time over which they occurred permeate these stories, one is most…

Book details

List price: $57.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/31/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Halmom


The Seaman's Chant


The Clear Water Pavilion


My Idiot Uncle


A Ceremony of Apostasy


The Underground Village


Pierrot


Eroica Symphony


My Idol's Abode


The Rainy Spell


A Pasque-Flower on That Bleak Day


That Winter of My Youth


His Father's Keeper


The Image of Mija