In The Japan Times David Cozy reviews A quintessential Korean epic to rival the very best of Tolstoy -- Land by Pak Kyung-ni; see also the Brill publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
I've mentioned this title a couple of times, and it has gotten some attention -- Margaret Drabble reviewed it in the TLS last year (issue of 22 June; not freely accessible online) -- but it still seems not to have really caught on. Of course the first part of the first part of this came out some fifteen years ago, and despite some decent reviews ... well, K.Connie Kang's hope in her 1996 review in The Los Angeles Times seems not quite to have panned out:
I've mentioned this title a couple of times, and it has gotten some attention -- Margaret Drabble reviewed it in the TLS last year (issue of 22 June; not freely accessible online) -- but it still seems not to have really caught on. Of course the first part of the first part of this came out some fifteen years ago, and despite some decent reviews ... well, K.Connie Kang's hope in her 1996 review in The Los Angeles Times seems not quite to have panned out:
For admirers of Korean literature, the publication of Park's voluminous masterpiece in English is a welcome event. The West has ignored Korean writers for too long, much as it has the country itself, which has lived in the shadows of its powerful neighbors, China and Japan. With the appearance of Land, perhaps that will begin to change.I hope to get my hands on a copy, eventually .....