Inside Issue 30
The Spring 2016 issue of the Asia Literary Review is a celebration of contemporary Korean literature from the country's most exciting young writers. It also includes an essay by Deborah Smith, translator of Han Kang's The Vegetarian, winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.
For a taste of what's in this issue, read part of Cheon Myeong-kwan's My Uncle Bruce Lee, where a group of village boys see the world through their obsession with Asia's Kung-fu hero. Follow that with an extract from Kim Ae-ran's The Youngest Parents with the Oldest Child: teenage parents struggle to cope as their child's accelerated growth makes him an old man at the age they were when he was born.
There's also startling new poetry from Kim Kyung Ju and Min-jeong Kim, and much more on Issue 30 in our Editorial.
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Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated by Susanna Soojung Lim |
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from The Youngest Parents with the Oldest Child Ae-ran Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim |
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from ButterFlyBook Apple Kim, translated by Sunny Jeong |
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Speeding Past Han Yujoo, translated by Janet Hong |
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Snowman Seo Yoo-mi, translated by Soyoung Kim |
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Wang’s Whole-Chicken Stew Kim Yi-seol, translated by Eun Kyung DuBois and Nathan A. DuBois |
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from Seven Cat's Eyes Choi Jae-hoon, translated by Yoonna Cho |
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Children in the Air Kim Seong Joong, translated by Stella Kim |
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Wonderboy Kim Yeonsu, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
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Essay | |
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Korean Literature Comes of Age Deborah Smith |
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Poetry | |
Heavy Snow, a Rented House, a Letter Kim Kyung Ju, translated by Jake Levine |
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The House Where Someone Was Born Kim Kyung Ju, translated by Jake Levine |
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Synopsis for the Theremin Kim Kyung Ju, translated byJake Levine |
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Finale Min-jeong Kim, translated by Won-Chung Kim |
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Min-jeong Kim, translated by Won-Chung Kim
Cover Art Front cover: detail from 'Untitled-15019', 2015, by Kangwook Lee (Arario Gallery) Back cover: 'ROK Passport on Blueprint', 2016, by Jesse Chun
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