Hwang Sunwon (1915-2000) is one of modern Korea's most influential writers. His career ranges from the colonial 1930s to the industrial 1990s, and he is the author of more than one hundred stories, seven novels, and two collections of poetry. Four of his novels have been translated into English, most recently Trees on a Slope. Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction and have received several awards and fellowships for their translations, including a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (the first ever awarded for a Korean translation into English) and a residency with the author Ch'oe Yun at the Banff International Literary Translation Center (the first ever awarded for a translation from an Asian language). The Fultons' most recent translation was the critically acclaimed work There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun.

In this evocative collection, Korean novelist Hwang depicts the struggle of every man to survive in tumultuous mid-20th century Korea. Publishers Weekly ...a modernist piece of work... Korea Herald

• The Pond Scarecrow Adverbial Avenue The Players Trumpet Shells Swine The Broken Reed Passing Rain The Offering The Gardener Autumn with Piano Mantis Custom Booze The Toad House Bulls To Smoke a Cigarette My Father The Dog of Crossover Village Deathless Lost Souls Pibari Voices Afterword