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Korean American Books
Summaries and reviews of fiction and nonfiction books by Korean American authors,
books about Korean Americans and Korea, and Korean literature in English translation,
including some academic works and a sampling on the Korean War
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Genre
- anthology (14)
- art (10)
- children's (7)
- drama (1)
- fiction (84)
- fiction (translation) (21)
- korean war (8)
- memoir (42)
- nonfiction (66)
- other (3)
- poetry (13)
- YA (24)
Reviewed Titles
- Aekyung’s Dream (Paek)
- Aloft (Lee)
- American Woman (Choi)
- Among the Flowering Reeds: Classic Korean Poetry Written in Chinese (Kim)
- An Appointment with My Brother
- Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (Kang and Rigoulot)
- Archer's Quest (YA) (Park)
- Art of Korea: San Francisco Asian Art Museum (Kim)
- Art of the Korean Renaissance: 1400-1600 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) NY
- Aunt Jean (Walter)
- Barter (Youn)
- Bitter Fruit of Kom-Pawi (Koh)
- Book of Dead Birds (Brandeis)
- Bridge at No Gun Ri (Hanley et al)
- Brother One Cell (Thomas)
- Burton Holmes Travel Stories (Tietjens)
- Cab Called Reliable (Kim)
- Calligrapher's Daughter (Kim)
- Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture (Foster et al)
- Chesi's Story (White)
- Chi-Hoon: A Korean Girl (children's) (McMahon)
- Chinese Mirror (Ginsburg)
- Clay Walls (Kim Ronyoung)
- Cliched AA book covers
- Cock Still Crows (Pahk)
- Color of Earth (Kim Dong Wha)
- Comfort Woman (Keller)
- Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution (Hicks)
- Concise History of Korea (Seth)
- Corea: The Hermit Nation (Griffis)
- Country of Origin (Lee)
- Cry Korea Cry (Pak)
- Culture and State in Late Choson Korea (Haboush)
- Dictée (Cha Hak Kyung)
- Dokebi Bride (Vols. 1-6 graphic novels) (Marley)
- Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Lewallen)
- Dreams of Two Yi-Min (Pai)
- Early Korean Literature (McCann)
- Earth Spirit Fire: Korean Masterpieces of the Choson Dynasty (Powerhouse Museum)
- East Goes West (Kang)
- Echoes of the White Giraffe (Choi)
- Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings (Kim)
- Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets (Lee)
- Edinburgh (Chee)
- Encounter (Hahn)
- Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country (Kim)
- Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom (Houchins)
- Everlasting Empire (Yi In-Hwa)
- Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea (Pratt)
- Everything Asian (Woo)
- Fifteen Years Among the Top-Knots: Life in Korea (Underwood)
- Fifth Wheel (Lee Soon Chul)
- Fold (Na)
- Foreign Student (Choi)
- Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir (Che)
- Forgotten Country (Chung)
- Fox Girl (Keller)
- Free Food for Millionaires (Lee)
- Fruit 'n Food (Chang)
- Gathering of Pearls (Choi)
- Gesture Life (Lee)
- Gift of the Emperor (Park)
- Girl-Son (Neuberger)
- Golden Mountain: The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant (Charr)
- Grass Roof (Kang)
- Guest (Hwang)
- Han Yong-un and Yi Kwang-Su: Two Pioneers of Modern Korean Literature (Yu)
- Here I Am (Kim)
- History of Korea (Kim)
- Home Was the Land of the Morning Calm (Kang)
- House of the Winds (Yun)
- I Am Korean American (children's) (Kim)
- I Am the Clay (Potok)
- I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Kim)
- I Married a Korean (Kim)
- I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children (Dorrow)
- Ignatz (Youn)
- In Full BLoom (Hwang)
- In the Absence of Sun (Lee)
- In the Shadow of the Sun (O'Brien)
- Innocent (Kim)
- Interpreter (Kim)
- Introduction to Korean History and Culture (Nahm)
- Irma and the Hermit: My Life in Korea (Tennant)
- Jia (Kim)
- Jungsoon (Park)
- Kimchi Chronicles (PBS series)
- King's Secret: The Legend of King Sejong (children's) (Farley)
- Korea Adventure: Inside Story of an Army Wife (Vieman)
- Korea Between Empires 1895-1919 (Schmid)
- Korea in War Revolution and Peace (Underwood)
- Korea Today (McCune)
- Korea: The Search for Sovereignty (Simons)
- Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Cumings)
- Korean Americans (Lehrer & Stotsky)
- Korean Folk and Fairy Tales (Crowder)
- Korean Landscape Painting: Continuity and Innovation through the Ages (Yi)
- Korean Residents in Japan: 80-Year History (Kim Sang-hyun)
- Korean Shamanist Ritual: Symbols and Dramas of Transformation (Kister)
- Korean Shamanistic Rituals (Lee)
- Korean Way (Rice)
- Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction (Fenkl)
- KYOPO (Hwang)
- Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction (Pihl)
- Language of Blood (Trenka)
- Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea (O'Brien)
- Light in the Far East (Fischer)
- Living Reed (Buck)
- Long for This World (Chung)
- Long Season of Rain (YA) (Kim)
- Lost Mother (Iltang)
- Lost Names (Kim)
- Love and the Search for Home
- Lucky Gourd Shop (YA) (Scott)
- Magic Amber (Reasoner)
- Man Sei: The Making of a Korean American (Hyun)
- Martyred (Kim)
- Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (Haboush)
- Memories of My Ghost Brother (Fenkl)
- Miles from Nowhere (Mun)
- Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity (Clark)
- Modern Korean Literature (Lee)
- My Freedom Trip: A Child's Escape from North Korea (children's)
- My Innocent Uncle (Ch'ae)
- My Korean Deli (Howe)
- Native Speaker (Lee)
- Night Sessions (Cho)
- North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in Korea (Lankov)
- Nothing to Envy (Demick)
- Old Korea: The Land of Morning Calm (Keith)
- One Thousand Chestnut Trees (Stout)
- Orphan Master's Son (Johnson)
- Over the Shoulder (Chang)
- Pachinko (Lee)
- Part of the Ribbon (YA) (Hunter)
- Peace Under Heaven (Ch'ae)
- Person of Interest (Choi)
- Piano Teacher (Lee)
- Pioneers of Modern Korea (Fisher)
- Please Look After Mom (Shin)
- Poems from Korea (Lee)
- Poet (Yi)
- Postwar Korean Short Stories: An Anthology
- Project Eagle (Kim)
- Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (graphic novel) (Delisle)
- Queen of Tears (McKinney)
- Queens of K-Town (Hur)
- Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America (Lee)
- Rascal and the Pilgrim: The Story of the Boy from Korea (Anthony)
- Red Queen (Drabble)
- Remembering Korea 1950 (Shin)
- Ricepaper Airplane (Pak)
- Samguk Yusa (Ilyon)
- Search (Grifffin)
- Secondhand World (Min)
- Seesaw Girl (Park)
- Separated at Birth (Bordier & Futerman)
- September Monkey (Pahk)
- Shaman Sorceress (Kim Dong-ni)
- Shelter (Yun)
- Single Shard (Park)
- Skirt Full of Black (Shin)
- Small Revolution (Han)
- So Far from the Bamboo Grove (Watkins)
- Soldiers in Hiding (Wiley)
- Somebody's Daughter (Lee)
- Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars (Holman)
- Song of Ariran: A Korean Communist in the Chinese Revolution (Wales)
- Songs of the Kisaeng : Courtesan Poetry of the Last Korean Dynasty (Contogenis)
- Spirit
- Step from Heaven (Na)
- Still Life with Rice (Lee)
- Surfacing Sadness: A Centennial of Korean-American Literature (Choi)
- Surrendered (Lee)
- Syncretism: The Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea (Chung)
- Talk Story blog
- Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember (Lee)
- Ten Thousand Sorrows (Kim)
- There a Petal Silently Falls (Ch’oe/Fulton)
- This Burns My Heart (Park)
- This Is Paradise-My North Korean Childhood (Kang)
- Three Day Promise: A Korean Soldier's Memoir (Chung)
- Three Generations (Yom Sang-seop)
- Through Our Eyes: Peace Corps in Korea (Harwood)
- To Swim Across the World (Park)
- Traditional Korean Designs (Orban-Szontagh)
- Tragedy of Korea (McKenzie)
- Trail of Crumbs: Hunger (Sunée)
- Translations of Beauty (Yun)
- Treasures from Korea: Art through 5000 Years
- True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women (Howard)
- Turn to the East (Singer & Baldridge)
- Twofold Song (Yi)
- Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea (Kang)
- Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader (Martin)
- Unspoken Voices: Selected Short Stories by Korean Women Writers (Choi)
- Vanguard: A Tale of Korea (Gale)
- War Trash (Jin)
- Waves (Kang Shin-jae)
- Wayfarer: New Fiction by Korean Women (Fulton)
- Weathered Blossom (Park Wan-Suh)
- When My Name Was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in WWII (YA) (Park)
- When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon (Park)
- Where There Is No Path
- Winds of Change: Korean Women in America (Yu)
- Wings (Yi)
- Wisdom of the Dragon (Pahk)
- Without You There Is No Us (Kim)
- Women and Confucian Culture
- Women of Uneasy Virtue (Luchessa)
- Wrack and Ruin (Lee)
- Yalu Flows (Lee Mirok)
- Yankee Hobo in the Orient (Patric)
- Yankee in the Land of the Morning Calm (Southerton)
- Year of Impossible Goodbyes (Choi)
- YELL-Oh Girls (Nam)
- Yellow: Stories (Lee)
- Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature: Mujong (Lee)
- You For Me For You (Chung)
Reviewed Authors
- Anthony (Joseph) (1)
- Baldridge (C. Le Roy) (1)
- Bordier (Anaïs) (1)
- Brandeis (Gayle) (1)
- Buck (Pearl S.) (1)
- Ch'ae (Man-Shik) (2)
- Ch’oe (Yun) (1)
- Cha (Theresa Hak Kyung) (2)
- Chang (Leonard) (2)
- Charr (Earsurk Emsen) (1)
- Che (Sunny) (1)
- Chee (Alexander) (1)
- Cho (David) (1)
- Choi (Ji-Young) (1)
- Choi (Sook Nyul) (3)
- Choi (Susan) (3)
- Choi (Yearn Hong) (1)
- Chung (Catherine) (1)
- Chung (David) (1)
- Chung (Donald K.) (1)
- Chung (Mia) (1)
- Chung (Sonya) (1)
- Clark (Donald) (1)
- Contogenis (Constantine) (1)
- Cumings (Bruce) (1)
- Delisle (Guy) (1)
- Demick (Barbara) (1)
- Drabble (Margaret) (1)
- Farley (Carole J.) (1)
- Fenkl (Heinz Insu) (2)
- Fischer (Edward) (1)
- Fisher (Earnest) (1)
- Foster (Jenny Ryan et al) (1)
- Fulton (Bruce and Ju-Chan) (2)
- Futerman (Samantha) (1)
- Gale (James Scarth) (1)
- Ginsburg (Mirra) (1)
- Griffin (Bobby E.) (1)
- Griffis (Wm. Elliot) (1)
- Haboush (JaHyun Kim) (3)
- Hahn (Gloria) (1)
- Hahn (Moo-Sook) (1)
- Han (Jimin) (1)
- Han (Suzanne Crowder) (1)
- Hanley (1)
- Harwood (William) (1)
- Hicks (George) (1)
- Holman (Sheri) (1)
- Houchins (Chang-su Cho) (1)
- Howard (Keith) (1)
- Howe (Ben Ryder) (1)
- Hunter (Ruth S.) (1)
- Hur (Angela Mi Young) (1)
- Hwang (Caroline) (1)
- Hwang (Cindy) (1)
- Hwang (Sok-yong) (1)
- Hyun (Peter) (1)
- Iltang (1)
- Jin (Ha) (1)
- Johnson (The Orphan Master's Son) (1)
- Kang (Chol-Hwan) (1)
- Kang (Connie K.) (1)
- Kang (Hildi) (1)
- Kang (Hyok) (1)
- Kang (Laura) (1)
- Kang (Shin-jae) (1)
- Kang (Younghill) (2)
- Keith (Elizabeth) (1)
- Keller (Nora Okja) (2)
- Kim (Agnes) (1)
- Kim (Djun Kil) (1)
- Kim (Dong Wha) (1)
- Kim (Dong-ni) (1)
- Kim (Elaine) (1)
- Kim (Elizabeth) (1)
- Kim (Eugenia) (1)
- Kim (Helen) (1)
- Kim (Hyejin) (1)
- Kim (Jong-gil) (1)
- Kim (Kumja Paik) (1)
- Kim (Mike) (1)
- Kim (Patti) (2)
- Kim (Richard E.) (3)
- Kim (Richard S.) (1)
- Kim (Robert) (1)
- Kim (Ronyoung) (1)
- Kim (Sang-hyun) (1)
- Kim (Suki) (2)
- Kim (TaeShin) (1)
- Kim (Young-ha) (1)
- Kim Chong-un) (1)
- Kister (Daniel A.) (1)
- Ko (Dorothy) (1)
- Koh (Taiwon) (1)
- Lankov (1)
- Lee (Ann Sung-hi) (1)
- Lee (Chang-rae) (4)
- Lee (Christine Hyung-Oak) (1)
- Lee (Don) (3)
- Lee (Helie) (2)
- Lee (Janice Y.K.) (1)
- Lee (Jung Young) (1)
- Lee (Marie Myung-Ok) (1)
- Lee (Mary Paik) (1)
- Lee (Min Jin) (2)
- Lee (Mirok) (1)
- Lee (Peter H.) (3)
- Lee (Soon Chul) (1)
- Lehrer (Brian) (1)
- Lew (Walter) (1)
- Luchessa (Paul) (1)
- Marley (1)
- Martin (Bradley) (1)
- Materi (Irma) (1)
- McCann (David) (1)
- McCune (George) (1)
- McKenzie (F.A.) (1)
- McKinney (Chris) (1)
- McMahon (Patricia) (1)
- Min (Katherine) (1)
- Mun (Nami) (1)
- Na (An) (2)
- Nahm (Andrew C.) (1)
- Nam (Vickie) (1)
- Neuberger (Anne E.) (1)
- O'Brien (Anne Sibley) (2)
- Organ-Szontagh (1)
- Paek (Min) (1)
- Pahk (Induk) (4)
- Pai (Margaret K.) (1)
- Pak (Gary) (1)
- Pak (Therese) (1)
- Pak (Ty) (1)
- Park (Frances) (2)
- Park (Ginger) (2)
- Park (Linda Sue) (4)
- Park (Myosik) (1)
- Park (Samuel) (1)
- Park (Wan-Suh) (1)
- Patric (John) (1)
- Piggot (Joan R.) (1)
- Pihl (Marshall) (1)
- Potok (Chaim) (1)
- Pratt (Keith) (1)
- Rice (W. Ransom) (1)
- Schmid (Andre) (1)
- Scott (Joanna Catherine) (1)
- Seth (Michael J.) (1)
- Shin (H.K.) (1)
- Shin (Kyung-sook) (1)
- Shin (Sun Yung) (1)
- Simons (Geoff) (1)
- Singer (Caroline) (1)
- Sohn (Stephen Hong) (1)
- Southerton (Donald G.) (1)
- Stotsky (Sarah) (1)
- Stout (Mira) (1)
- Strawn (Sonia Reid) (1)
- Sunée (Kim) (1)
- Thomas (Cullen) (1)
- Tietjens (Eunice) (1)
- Trenka (Jane Jeong) (1)
- Underwood (Horace G.) (1)
- Underwood (Lillias) (1)
- Vieman (Dorothy House) (1)
- Wales (Nym) (1)
- Walter (Jeannette) (1)
- Watkins (Yoko Kawashima) (1)
- White (Link) (1)
- Whitfield (Roderick) (1)
- Wiley (Richard) (1)
- Woo (Sung J.) (1)
- Yi (In-Hwa) (1)
- Yi (Kwant-su) (1)
- Yi (Munyol) (3)
- Yi (Sang) (1)
- Yi (Song-mi) (1)
- Yom (Sang-seop) (1)
- Youn (Monica) (2)
- Yu (ByeongCheong) (1)
- Yu (Diana) (1)
- Yun (Jung) (1)
- Yun (Mia) (2)
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