Jo Jung-Rae‘s (the name is different on the book, Cho Chongnae, however KTLIT uses the authors preferred Romanization as determined by the authoritative page at LTI Korea) How in Heaven’s Name: A Novel of World War Two, is available now. Unusually, it is a novel of World War II, an era that is not that…
This was going to be a simple review, after all, I’d reviewed this story once before, in a different edition. But now, reading it years later and with far more experience in grappling with Korean literature in translation, it may seem like a far different creature for me. So, although this has been reviewed on…
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a new edition of The Land of the Banished” which was previously published in the Portable Library of Korean Fiction. A review of that version can be found here. It was also published as the title story of the excellent collection Land Of Exile) What makes Jo Jung-rae’s (if you can…