A Ready Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 19
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English Pages 200 Year 1998
Table of contents :
Contents
Translators’ Preface
Introduction
A Society That Drives You to Drink
The Lady Barber
A Tale of Rats
The Rotary Press
An Idiot’s Delight
A Ready-Made Life
The Photograph and the Letter
Mama and the Boarder
A Descendant of the Hwarang
Wife
When the Buckwheat Blooms
Mystery Woman
The Haunted House
The Barbershop Boy
Phantom Illusion
The Mule
About the Translators