ICI Comme Ailleurs (French Edition)

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The Reverse Side of Life

( An extraordinary, highly acclaimed novel from Korea, re...)

An extraordinary, highly acclaimed novel from Korea, revealing how the conflict of the secular and the divine manifests in the real world.   Bak Bugil's father is a genius. Everyone in the village expects him to pass the civil service examination and become a judge, but he hasn't been seen since he left to study in Seoul. Bak lives with his mother and his father's relations. At the end of a path that leads to the rear of their house is a persimmon tree and an old ramshackle hut. Children are forbidden by grownups to go near the tree, but Bak makes repeated incursions to collect the forbidden fruit. Finally, an encounter with the inhabitant of the hut changes his life forever. Decades later, a journalist (the narrator) is asked to write an article about one of South Korea's most unique writers, Bak Bugil. Initially reluctant, the journalist begins to develop a curiosity about Bak's past. Upon meeting Bak, it becomes clear that he finds childhood recollection painful and difficult, but the journalist knows that that if he is to write a single word about Bak it will be impossible without unearthing that history. Dealing with childhood shame, abandonment, rebellion, first love, and religious experimentation, this extraordinary novel cemented its author's reputation as one of the stars of South Korea's literary scene.

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Magnolia Park (Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature, Volume 22)

(Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature (set 2). "Mag...)

Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature (set 2). "Magnolia Park" by Lee Seung-u. ASIA Publishers present some of the very best modern Korean literature to readers worldwide through its new Korean literature series . We are proud and happy to offer it in the most authoritative translation by renowned translators of Korea literature. We hope that this series helps to build solid bridges between citizens of the world and Koreans through rich in-depth understanding of Korea. "Yeah, sometimes I go for walks in the cemetery," she admitted. "It's just around to the left side from here. When I walk around and read the epitaphs written on the gravestones, it almost feels like I'm walking through a crowd of people gathered in a park. Just like living people you see walking around are all unique, the graves of the dead are all unique, too. Some gravestones are engraved with nothing but a large, imposing name, and others are covered with lines and lines of text written in cramped, tiny letters. And I wonder to myself: What could those people have to say that they had to write so much? And so I just have to stop and take a look. Sometimes the sound of the dead talking is so deafening I have to cover my ears."

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The Private Lives of Plants: Private Life of Plants (Library of Korean Literature) by Lee Seung-U (2015-12-18)

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The Private Lives of Plants: Private Life of Plants (Library of Korean Literature)

(The Private Life of Plants is about the ways in which des...)

The Private Life of Plants is about the ways in which desire can both worsen and mitigate our flaws. We meet amputee sons whose mothers cart them from brothel to brothel; we meet brothers who love their brother's lovers, and whose lovers in turn are stolen away by the husbands of their sisters. Sexuality in all its ugliness and wonder is put under the microscope by Lee Seung-U, who reminds us that love may come in various forms, but that it is, nonetheless, a force that unifies us all . . . whether we like it or not.

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