Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories

By: Ch'oe, Myŏngik

Korean writer Ch'oe Myŏngik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. His career spanned decades of tumult, from his debut in the 1930s while Korea was under Japanese colonial rule through the Asia-Pacific and Korean Wars and the early years of the Democratic People's Republic. As Pyongyang transformed from Korea's second city, peripheral to the Seoul-centered literary scene,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231202717
• ISBN13: 9780231202718
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"