Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories by Ch’oe Myŏngik

Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories

Ch’oe Myŏngik with Janet Poole (Translator)

304 pages first pub 2024 (view editions)

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 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 r...

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reflective: 100%

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tense: 50%


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