由英國哥倫比亞大學韓國文學與文學翻譯的系主任Bruce Fulton 與首爾國立大學韓國文學教授 Youngmin Kwon 共同編輯，收錄了韓國20世紀以來現代作家的短篇小說作品。

To represent the past century of Korean fiction, thisdefinitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges culturalnorms, and crosses political borders. By inlcuding stories from neglectedfemale, North Korean, and wolbuk writers (those who migrated to the North after1945 and whose works were widely banned in South Korea) and by bringingpolitically engaged works together with experimental ones, this anthologyarticulates the ruptures and resolutions that have makred the peninsula. Fromsketches of desperate peasants in straitened circumstances to fast-moving,visceral tales of contemporary South Korea, the works in this collection bearwitness to the dramatic transformations and events in twentieth-century Koreanhistory, including Japanese colonial rule, civil war, and economicmodernization in the South. The writers explore these developments through avariety of literary and political lenses, revealing wtih precision andpoignancy their impact on Korean society and the lives of ordinary Koreans.This anthology includes an introduction, which synthesizes the key developmentsin modern Korean literature, and a comprehensive bibliography of Korean fictionin translation.