The first 10 volumes of Dalkey Archive Press and the Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s Korean literature series will be hitting U.S. bookstores on Nov. 16, the Korea-based translation institute announced Tuesday.
The series, titled “Library of Korean Literature,” consists of 25 works by Korea’s contemporary authors and those who lived through Korea’s colonial and postcolonial periods. The remaining 15 volumes in the series will be released next year.
The 10 volumes to be published next month include Yi Kwang-su’s 1932 fiction “The Soil,” which tells the story of a lawyer and an idealist who dedicates his life to helping the residents of a rural community during Korea’s Japanese colonial period.
Also included is Park Wan-suh’s collection of short stories “Lonesome You.” Its title story, “Lonesome You,” is about an aging woman who has been separated from her husband for a number of years.
