Land of Tears

Description

Land of Tears is an anthology of short stories about the Korean experience of poverty and mental and physical anguish. Most of the stories have to do directly or indirectly with the Korean War. The stories depict the lives of a wide range of characters, such as a North Korean People’s Army soldier, a South Korean Communist Party Partisan member, the wife of a Partisan, an ordinary South Korean person in the midst of hardship during the Korean War, a North Korean refugee, and the anguish of a South Korean intellectual.