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Presents two stories by Yi Chong-jun. Worm Story was originally published in 1985, and was adapted for the screen in 2007 by Lee Chang-dong as Secret Sunshine. "Abject” is a compelling first-person narrative about two brothers—one a doctor, the other a painter—marred by trauma. The older brother, haunted by a war trauma starts writing a novel set during the Korean War.

The historic movement, the emotional speeches, the underground publications, and the famous legal battles all helped the islanders to learn about many hitherto totally alien concepts of socialism and Western democracy, including surplus value, historical materialism, the eight-hour working day, the right to strike, the consent of the governed, popular elections, suffrage, and home rule.

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This novel offers a panorama of Korea and Koreans coming to terms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. Contemporary events, such as the demolition of a squatter neighbourhood, as well as flashbacks to the Korean War, help to set the social and historical context of the novel.

This novel offers a panorama of Korea and Koreans coming to terms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. Contemporary events, such as the demolition of a squatter neighbourhood, as well as flashbacks to the Korean War, help to set the social and historical context of the novel.

Sensitively explores cultural differences, religious faith, science and the question of miracles, and the atrocity of Auschwitz. Already described as a "minor classic” of Japanese literature before it was translated into English, Doak's translation makes available this remarkable work by one of postwar Japan's most talented writers to a broader, international audience.

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Examines high-rise housing projects called danchi that were built during Japan's years of "high speed economic growth” (1955-1972) to house aspiring middle-class families migrating to urban areas.

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The crimson thread noted in the title of this book aptly describes the nature of Teriyama's stories and the interstitial webbing joining them together thematically by the metaphorical twisting together of unrequited love, abandonment, irremediable separation, and disappointment. Told in the manner of fantasy and magic realism, the stories are populated with characters who face the vagaries of fortune, happiness always just out of their reach.T...