The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea

Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton
Foreword by Bruce Cummings
Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009
“The characters, and the settings, in these stories are Korean. However, thanks to superb translations by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, the stories themselves are universal. They expose the devastating impact traumatic experiences have on an individual’s judgment, moral compass, and self-image long [...]

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Ibrahim Buksh’s Circus and Other Stories

by Shahaduz Zaman
Translated by Sonia Amin
Dhaka: UPL, 2008
Shahaduz Zaman,  a Bengali writer of short fiction, holds a doctorate in medical anthropology, and his training in native medical folklore often appears in his work. Among the most successful of the pieces in this collection of eight stories from Bangladesh is “The Story that Got Away,” concerning [...]

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