« Mère, est-ce qu’on va devenir des chiens errants ? », ainsi s’adresse cet enfant, déporté avec sa mère, comme 172 000 autres Coréens, dans les zones dépeuplées d’Asie centrale. En 1937, Staline décide le transfert des Coréens de l’Extrême-Orient russe par trains entiers pour les distinguer des ennemis japonais. Trains de l’exode, nostalgie du pays d’accueil, nostalgie du pays natal, La terre qui erre est l’histoire vraie de ces Coréens entassés dans des wagons à bestiaux, déportés depuis...

An elderly Korean woman talking about being forced into sexual slavery during World War II. A modern Korean woman extricating herself from a failing relationship with an artist. Award-winning South Korean writer Kim Soom presents us with portraits of two women who couldn’t be more different but who both show resilience and compassion. No Hand Held Mine: Stories, containing one non-fiction piece and one short story, demonstrates the power and breadth of Kim’s writing. “Granny Wild ...

A powerful tale of trauma and endurance that transformed a nation’s understanding of Korean comfort womenDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women have come forward only to have the...