Stephen Hong Sohn has written one of the smartest, analytical books on  literature in the past year with Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds.

Translations of contemporary (up to 1990) Korean writings include poetry, fiction, essays, and drama, predominantly focus on the difficult, tragic and resilient history of Korea during the  twentieth-century.

Rich language describes a Korean-Japanese-American former WWII medic living quietly in Connecticut in a small provincial town.

With this 1996 debut novel, Chang-rae Lee entered the pantheon of literary best-sellers. Part mystery, part spy story, part immigrant experience, the story examines the character and identity of Henry Park.

As a piece of “living history,” this fascinating large-format volume brings together the narrative of Caroline Singer and artwork of her husband, Roy Baldridge, of their year (likely 1924-25) in the Far East, including Japan, Korea and China.

A middle-grade book that appears to be part of a series on the immigrant experience.

My family knew Agnes Davis Kim as “Auntie Agnes,” though she wasn’t a blood relative. My Korean parents knew her, perhaps from Korea, perhaps afterwards as immigrants in America, but her book was always on our shelves, and we would visit Auntie Agnes and Uncle David on their farm in the Catskills every summer when I was young.

This slim volume, a gem, tells Shin’s story of his boyhood and his experience in the Korean War as a sixteen-year-old ROK soldier.

Catherine Chung’s acclaimed debut novel (a Booklist Starred Review, among other terrific press) earns its accolades with elegant prose and a story of an immigrant family.