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The Book of Korean Poetry: CHOSON DYNASTY
The 16th and 17th-century Korean poets Chong Chol, Pak Illo and Yun Sondo were masters in the sijo (short lyric poetry) and kasa (narrative verse) forms. This translation of their complete works includes an introduction that provides literary and cultural background.
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The Republic of Užupis
Užupis (meaning “on the other side of the river”) is, in reality, a neighborhood in Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997. In this novel, however, it is the lost homeland of a middle-aged man named Hal, who lands in Lithuania hoping to bury his…
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To Korea with Love
To Korea With Love is a biography of Faye Pinchbeck Moon, written by her daughter Youngme Moon. Originally written in Korean and published in Korea (No One Listened to Her Story, 1999), it has now been translated into English for publication in the U.S. This is the moving personal story of an American woman, whose…
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The Jovian Sayings
“Even though they sailed across the vast emptiness in spaceships and lived under a strange sky, it is not that they changed their nature also.” Thus observes Miriam Hahn, a Ganymedean historian of the 29th century, reviewing the history of the colonial societies on the Jovian system, paraphrasing Horace. The Jovian Sayings is a part…
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The Unforgotten War
But then, old wars never end. They simply fade away as old soldiers die off. One by one. Thus laments the veteran of the celebrated Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. The Korean War (June 1950 July 1953) is the first war that came to be known as the The Forgotten War . As the last…