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Ahn, Junghyo |
PL 984 A78 S5 |
| Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea |
New York: Soho Press, 1990 |
| This novel describes the effects of the Korean War on an idyllic village when UN troops set up a base near the village. The author contrasts the old values of the village headman with the realities of life during war. |
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Chang, Leonard |
PS 3553 H27244 D57 |
| Dispatches from the Cold |
Seattle: Black Heron Press, 1998 |
| An incompetent loser is fired from his job by his new manager, a middle-aged Korean-American which precipitates a chain of events resulting in tragedy. |
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Chang, Leonard |
PS 3553 H27244 F78 |
| The Fruit n' Food |
Seattle: Black Heron Press, 1996 |
| A bright Korean-American college graduate is forced to take a job in a Korean owned grocery store in an African American neighborhood. Despite his initial contempt for his employers he eventually is caught up in the violence that surrounds them. |
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Chang, Leonard |
Johnson County Library (MYSTERY Chang Leonard) |
| Over the Shoulder: A Novel of Intrigue |
New York: Ecco Press, 2001 |
| A Korean-American security expert working in Silicon Valley finds his isolated life disturbed in this noir thriller about his investigation into the death of his partner. |
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Choi, Susan |
Johnson County Library (FICTION Choi Susan) |
| The Foreign Student |
New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998 |
| A young man fleeing the Korean War is accepted as a student at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee where he gradually develops a romance with a southern belle from New Orleans with a secret past. The book contains some graphic depictions of the horrors of the Korean War. |
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Hwang, Caroline (Korea, American) |
PS 3608.W36 I5 |
| In Full Bloom |
New York: Dutton, 2003 |
| A Korean-American woman in search of a career in the New York fashion industry is actively trying to thwart her mother's attempts to
find her a husband in a hilarious novel about immigrant culture in the United States. |
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Hwang, Suk-Young |
DS501.C67x vol.73 |
| The Shadow of Arms |
Ithaca: Cornell University, 1994 |
| At a US army base in South Korea during the Vietnam War, there is a lively trade in PX goods that seem to end up in the hands of the Vietcong. |
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Keller, Nora Okja |
PS 3561 E38574 C66 |
| Comfort Woman |
New York: Viking, 1997 |
| A Korean American teenager, growing up in Hawaii, who is embarrassed by her mother’s strangeness, is unaware that her mother was forced to be a "comfort woman" during World War II. |
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Keller, Nora Okja |
PS 3561 E38574 F68 |
| Fox Girl |
New York: Viking, 2002 |
| The novel follows three throwaway children in Korea who fall into prostitution and crime because of their outcast status. |
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Kim, Patti |
PS 3561 I4146 C33 |
| A Cab Called Reliable |
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997 |
| A young Korean immigrant is forced to take over care of her household and her unambitious father when her mother deserts them. |
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Kim, Richard E |
PS 3561 I415 |
| Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood |
New York: Praeger, 1970 |
| This haunting narrative follows a young Korean boy through the years of World War II when the Japanese introduced their culture, religion and will over native Koreans. It is a story of courage in the face of overwhelming odds. |
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UNESCO collection of representative works |
PL 984 E8 L36 |
| Land of exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction |
Armonk: M.E. Sharpe/UNESCO Pub, 1993 |
| This is an anthology of twelve short stories by post-1945 Korean authors. Many of these stories are translated for the first time. |
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Lee, Chang-Rae |
PS 3562 E3347 G4 |
| A Gesture Life |
New York: Riverhead Books, 1999 |
| A Japanese man of Korean descent, living in a comfortable New England town, muses about the failures in his life, his estrangement from his adopted daughter, a failed romance, and his experiences in the Japanese army during the war. |
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Lee, Chang-Rae |
PS 3562 E3347 N38 |
| Native speaker |
New York: Riverhead Books, 1996 |
| A professional espionage agent is asked to infiltrate the political organization of a prominent Korean-American politician. At the same time the agent is trying to reconcile with his wife from whom he has been estranged since the death of their son. |
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Munyol, Yi |
PL 992.9 M83 O8713 |
| Our Twisted Hero |
New York: Hyperion East, 2001 |
| A twelve-year-old boy transfers into a school that is dominated by a bully. Although he initially resists the bully's demands, he eventually gives in rather than face harassment and ostracism. |
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Pak, Wanso |
PL 992.62 W34 A26 |
| My Very Last Possession and Other Stories |
Armonk: M E Sharpe, 1999 |
| These short stories explore the tension between traditional Korean society and a rapidly modernizing world. The trama of the Korean War and life in a divided country are also themes. |
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Park, Kyong-ni |
PL 992.62 K9 K513 |
| The Curse of Kim's Daughters |
Paramus: Homa & Sekey, 2004 |
| The five daughters of prosperous pharmacist and owner of a fishing fleet, suffer unhappiness and death because of a curse laid upon them by their grandmother in this novel that explores the evolution of Korean society in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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Park, Therese |
PS 3566 A674718 G54 |
| A Gift of the Emperor |
Duluth: Spinsters Ink, 1997 |
| This novel by a Kansas City author chronicles the life of a "comfort woman," a Korean teenager forced by the Japanese to work as a prostitute for their troops during World War II. |
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Yi, In-Hwa |
PL 992.9 I4767 Y6513 |
| Everlasting Empire |
White Plains: EastBridge, 2002 |
| This historical novel in the form of a mystery describes intrigue at the court of the last strong Korean king in about 1800. It's story within a story and pseudo-historical narrative is reminiscent of the work of Umberto Eco. |
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