Yi T'aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea's true masters of the short story--and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied North. Dust and Other Stories offers a selection of Yi's stories across time and place, showcasing a superb stylist caught up in his era's most urgent ideological and aesthetic divides.
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Yi T'aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea's true masters of the short story--and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied North. Dust and Other Stories offers a selection of Yi's stories across time and place, showcasing a superb stylist caught up in his era's most urgent ideological and aesthetic divides.
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