by Hwang, Sun-wŏn · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780930523589
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«The Book of Masks» is a collection of short stories by Korean writer Hwang Sun-won, published by Readers International in paperback (172 pages, in English).
Short stories by Hwang Sun-won, one of the great voices of twentieth-century Korean fiction. The stories portray life, memory and the tensions of the Korea of his time with a psychological and sober eye; the back cover presents them as «intense tales» by Korea's «master of the short story».
The edition, prepared by Martin Holman, who signs the introduction, includes stories translated from the Korean. The book was published in London in 1989.
For readers interested in the contemporary short story and in twentieth-century Korean literature.
