Prose, poetry, art, non-fiction and other creative contributions about the international adoption experience by adult Asian adoptees.

More Voices: A Collection of Works from Asian Adoptees

Parenting & Relationships

Adoption

Koryo Press

In this enchanting tale from old Korea, a grandmother sends her husband off to market with a bolt of her lovingly woven cloth. She doesn't want him to sell it, she wants him to trade it for a good story. Grandfather returns with a fine tale of a flapping stork. Caught up in his lively retelling, neither grandfather nor grandmother are aware of the effect of their story on an unwelcome secret visitor. Humorous and beautifully illustrated, Flap Flap will delight children and parents alike.

Flap Flap

Kwon, Jeong-saeng

Children's Books

Bravo Your Life is a collection of creative nonfiction vignettes about life, family, and friendship in contemporary South Korea. As Korean American adoptee author Mi Soon Burzlaff slowly acculturates herself into her birth family and society at large, her writing opens an illuminating window into Seoul's raw and dynamic identity.

Bravo Your Life!

Travel

Mi Soon Burzlaff

Asia

The short story has been the genre of choice for writers of literary fiction in modern Korea and it continues to thrive in the new millennium. Waxen Wings: The Acta Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea offers a diverse sampling from a century of modern Korean short fiction, beginning with stories from two early masters (Yi Hyosok and Ch'ae Manshik) and ending with works by four of the most imaginative contemporary writers (Kim Yongha, Ha Songnan, P'yon Hyeyong, and Kim Chunghyok). In between are the two writers who are primarily responsible for the visibility enjoyed by Korean women fiction writers today (O Chongh i and Pak Wanso), and a writer, Kim Wonil, who has made it his lifework to address the territorial and spiritual division of the Korean peninsula. The title of the anthology, from Ha Songnan's 1999 story, suggests the transcendental qualities of the finest Korean short fiction. 
 In The Mountains by Yi Hyoseok Constable Maeng by Ch'ae Manshik Weaver Woman by Oh Cheong-hui We Sell Shame by Park Wan-so Prison of the Heart by Kim Won-il The Pager by Kim Young-ha Waxen Wings by Ha Seong-nan Corpses by Pyeon Hye-yeong The Glass Shield by Kim Chung-yeok

Waxen Wings: The Acta Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea

Literature & Fiction

Bruce Fulton

United States

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