This collection of 17 short stories by Korean writers covers the nihilism, inhumanity and hopelessness that marked the decade during and after the divisive Korean War.

The story occurs within two days, and is a tragicomedy of greed, ambition, egoism and miserliness of the protagonist, Master Yun, and how his family circle augments and exacerbates those pitiable characteristics.

Story of an unhappy Korean adoptee from the typical Minnesota Lutheran family. She goes to Korea in search of identity, pursuing a dream of her mother; transposed against the story of her birth mother and how the child came to be adopted.

Concludes the series of three autobiographical fiction books about growing up near Pyeongyang during the Japanese Occupation, through the turmoil of the Russian and American occupations, and flight to South Korea.

Sequel to YEAR OF IMPOSSIBLE GOODBYES, the story follows the narrator (semi-autobiographical story) to South Korea where many trials and tribulations continue to pursue the family in times of hardship and war.

This series of three young adult novels follow a girl from North Korea following the Japanese occupation, and then during the war years to Pusan, a journey of love and personal independence despite cultural strictures, then immigration to U.S. The book is followed by ECHOES OF THE WHITE GIRAFFE, and GATHERING OF PEARLS.

Valuable for its first-person eyewitness viewpoint on prewar issues in Korea and Japan, during the occupation.

Memoir of former North Korean medical student separated by Korean War from his family.

A journalist experiences and documents modern North Korean culture, when its proponents try to impress their ideology upon him, only to ultimately reveal its wasteful absurdity.