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Found on the web #39

(NOTE: You can also follow KTLIT on Twitter @ktlit) 1) Pavane for a Dead Princess – I am currently working on a review for Pavane for a Dead Princess, by Park Min-gyu) for Acta Koreana, so I can’t say too much myself, but the delightful Tony (despite his Australianity^^) provides us with a review. It’s a good review, and…

Review: “Our Happy Time” by Gong Ji-young (공지영)

If you don’t like a stacked deck, you may not like Gong Ji-Young’s Our Happy Time. While Gong does write a cracking tale, she piles freighted detail upon freighted detail, and horrible history upon horrible history, to ensure that the reader has no emotional wiggle-room with her characters. With that said, it’s a compelling read…

Kyung-Sook Shin’s (신경숙) Wonderful “I’ll Be Right There” (어디선가 나를 찾는 전화벨이 울리고) a review and confession.

1) “Wherever you go? There you are.” This was a difficult book to review, paradoxically because I liked it so much^^. And it is currently available on Amazon UK NOT the root Amazon site. Kyung-Sook Shin’s I’ll Be Right There  (Originally titled: 어디선가 나를 찾는 전화벨이 울리고, or something like “Somewhere the Phone is Ringing”)…

Review: “Tongue” (“혀”) by Jo Kyung Ran (조경란)

(NOTE: You can also follow KTLIT on Twitter @ktlit) TONGUE by Jo Kyung Ran (the author’s preferred Romanization), begins with a broken relationship; a 7 years’ relationship ends and the narrator loses her connection to food, up to and including her sense of taste. Unusually, however, for Korean fiction, it does not have any scenes in…