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...wrote from the late 1930s through to the 1950s, now published for the first time in English. Its dozens of tremors, minor and major, chart Korea's tempestuous transitions during those years, from the shaking off of the Japanese colonial yoke to the divisive clamor of the Korean War, while exposing angles of Korea seldom seen or remembered...
...Originally published as The Dog of Crossover Village in 1948, the second grouping (of seven stories) describes a ghastly ethical vacuum in the wake of World War II, infested with craven church elders, black marketeers and property speculators, which Hwang, who himself crossed over with his family from Pyongyang to Seoul in 1946, knew first-hand. "What a wretched state it was, with Koreans trying to swallow each other up," he writes in "Booze," venting authorial indignation, as he often does, in the guise of one of his characters. In this case, it's through the thoughts of an upright...
...characters - swarthy, oppressed sharecroppers, damsels in distress, prodigal sons - throughout the stories yet keep them fresh is a sign of his mastery. The title story of Lost Souls is a timeless romance hinged on filial impiety. From the book's less topical third section, written just after the Korean War's end, it's reminiscent of the classic tale of Chunhyang, often likened to a Korean Juliet, that's still a pansori and cinema standard. (Im Kwon Taek's 2000 film version was a blockbuster.) But the ending of Hwang's reworking is all his own. As are the livelier...
MUAMMAR GADDAFI, ruler of Libya, calling for a holy war against the European nation because its government voted in November to ban the construction of minarets...
...Virtues of Compromise These issues are political dynamite. Devolving power to Kurdistan or to the Shi'ite south - the two safest, richest parts of Iraq - could reignite the civil war between Shi'ites and Sunnis or start an additional one between Arabs and Kurds. But to centralize all power in a country with a history of totalitarianism has its own perils. That's why Iraqis will be watching their elections closely: not just to see the results but also to gauge whether their leadership class can accept the outcome of the vote and move forward peacefully. That will...