WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA
Yi T’aejun. Dust and Other Stories
Translated by Janet Poole.(2018)
“This eloquent book masterfully restores the quiet, nostalgic voices of Yi T’aejun’s fiction while also positing a connection between early North Korean literature and its colonial antecedent. Poole’s judicious selection of midcentury short stories is an important contribution to Korean literature in translation.”
– Samuel Perry, Brown University
“Dust and Other Stories is an evocative collection by one of Korea’s modernist masters that explores some of twentieth-century Korea’s tortured relations: those between art and life, the individual and history, and the private and public. Poole’s deep knowledge of this era and her profound empathy for the writer breathe life into colonial Korea’s most memorable characters.”
– Dafna Zur, Stanford University
