Land
10 best books like Land (Pak Kyongni): Ten Thousand Lives, The Dwarf, No One Writes Back, At Least We Can Apologize, Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel, Islands, Schooling, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea, Adjunct: An Undigest, Looking for the Possible Dance
| Author | Ko Un |
| ISBN | 1933382066 |
Born in 1933 in a small rural village in Korea’s North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist Monk in 1952, and began writing in the late 1950s. Ten Thousand Lives is his major, ongoing work, which began...
| Author | Cho Se-Hui |
| ISBN | 0824831012 |
The dark side of South Korea's economic miracle emerges in The Dwarf, Cho Se-hui's enormously popular and critically acclaimed work. First published in 1978, it speaks to the painful social costs of reckless industrialization, even as it tellingly portrays the spiritual malaise of the newly rich...
| Author | Eun-Jin Jang |
| ISBN | 1564789608 |
Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel. No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather...
| Author | Ki-ho Lee |
| ISBN | 1564789195 |
Emerging from the allegorical Institution—a brutal place where frequent illogical and inexplicable beatings plague the inhabitants—the narrator and Si-bong take refuge at the home of a foul-mouthed alcoholic prostitute (Si-bong’s sister) and her companion known only as the man with the...
| Author | Park Wansuh |
| ISBN | 0231148984 |
Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression,...
This novel of epic proportions from South Africa, set between 1650 and 1710, covers the first fifty years of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. Beautifully rendered, this is a world and a time never before dealt with in fiction-a period when powerful colonizers took over the lands of Hottentot...
| Author | Heather McGowan |
| ISBN | 0385501382 |
So Heather McGowan was my grad student professor at Brown in a creative writing class that I adored. I think she had a short story of the same character published in an anthology prior to the release of this novel.
Prepare yourself. She is a tough writer, and this was a crazy read. The narrator is this...
| Author | Lady Hyegyeong |
| ISBN | 0520200551 |
Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, which depicts a court life whose drama and pathos is of Shakespearean proportions....
| Author | Peter Manson |
| ISBN | 1859332226 |
While some may love this type of poetry. I could not stand any of it. It is bits and pieces of verbiage thrown together to make an unintelligible, nonsequential babbling of thought. If you are concrete-sequential like me, skip it. While the author is taking segments of conversations and news around him...
| Author | A.L. Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0749397586 |
Learn yerself Scotch Part One (With A.L Kennedy and shovelmonkey1)
Greet - Cry
Stovies - Type of meat stew with potatoes, onions and other root veg
Ken - Know
Nip yer head - to nag someone
Gub - to hit or smack
Wean / Wee yun - child
Birl - to spin
Git yer hole - to get laid
For...
| Author | Ardal O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0340693088 |
So young Dougal from Father Ted has gone and written a book now has he? Well lets see, what's it all about then?
Patrick Scully, the wee bollox, is living life at large up above in Dublin and is trying to make his own way in the world. A typical story you might think a young man finding his feet, making...
| Author | Péter Esterházy |
| ISBN | 0060501049 |
Harmonia Caelestis is the product of a decade of labour: a monumental, part-autobiographical family history. If Helping Verbs of the Heart was an homage to his mother, then this is a memorial to his father. It is actually two works in one. Book 1, "Numbered Sentences from the Life of the Esterházy Family",...
| Author | Alan Garner |
| ISBN | 1843430878 |
"HERE JOHN TURNER WAS CAST AWAY IN A HEAVY SNOW STORM IN THE NIGHT IN THE YEAR 1755" "THE PRINT OF A WOMAN'S SHOE WAS FOUND BY HIS SIDE IN THE SNOW WHERE HE LAY DEAD"
John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk across distances incomprehensible to his ancient and static...
| Author | Iain Sinclair |
| ISBN | 0141014822 |
Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair's sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs.
Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his...
| Author | Shashi Deshpande |
| ISBN | 0670892513 |
Shashi Deshpande's latest novel explores the lives of two women, one obsessed with music and the other a passionate believer in Communism, who break away from their families to seek fulfilment in public life. Savitribai Indorekar, born into an orthodox Hindu family, elopes with her Muslim lover and...
From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way - you have no business here!'
'Open up, I am the messenger of Death'.
As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. Old terrors are dredged...
| Author | David Dabydeen |
| ISBN | 1845230140 |
This novel that echoes the styles of Joseph Conrad and V. S. Naipaul follows a young Guyanese engineer appointed to help save and shore up a Kent coastal village's sea defenses, and his relationship with the old woman with whom he lodges. Learning more about the village's history through his relationship...
| Author | Gillian Rose |
| ISBN | 0805210784 |
A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished thinkers, to illuminate the deepest issues of our lives: love, friendship, sex, illness, and death. Rose's crisis gives her search the force of immediacy and intimacy; her willingness to face life...
| Author | Emine Sevgi Özdamar |
Life is a Caravanserai follows a lively, but rather unfortunate family from Istanbul to Bursa, then to Ankara and back to Istanbul. This is a women’s world: the mother, Fatma, nurtures her three children, with the grandmother Ayşe and the “aunties” of the neighbourhood, while Mustafa, the...
| Author | Cees Nooteboom |
| ISBN | 0330392603 |
A profound and searching new work from one of Europe's major contemporary writers. Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, has lost his wife and child in a plane crash. In ALL SOULS' DAY we follow Arthur as he wanders the streets of Berlin, a city uniquely shaped by history....
| Author | Jáchym Topol |
| ISBN | 0945774451 |
Winner of the Egon Hostovský Prize as the best Czech book of the year, this epic novel powerfully captures the sense of dislocation that followed the Czechs’ newfound freedom in 1989. More than just the story of its young protagonist—who is part businessman, part gang member, part drifter—it...
| Author | Jo Jung-rae |
| ISBN | 8973377930 |
Jo Jung-Rae has devoted his entire life to literature. His writings attain an excellence that marks him as a world-class author. His popular multi-volume novels Taebaek Mountain Range and Arirang, which have become modern classics since their publication in the 1980s, are considered the epitome...
| Author | Yi Mun-Yol |
| ISBN | 1860468969 |
A young man's determination to maintain his integrity in an unjust society forces him to endure a lonely and dangerous odyssey.
When a governor to the King falls into rebel hands, he switches sides to save his skin. When later he is captured by royal troops, it is not only he that is condemned to...
Sources of Korean Tradition: From Early Times Through the Sixteenth Century
| Author | Peter H. Lee |
| ISBN | 0231105673 |
Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume I, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from ancient times through the sixteenth century. Sources of Korean...
