Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of contemporary Korean fiction, including Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-wōn and The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui, both published by University of Hawai'i Press. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Ju-Chan Fulton is, with Bruce Fulton, the cotranslator of The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui and Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-won.

This novel is a symbolic protest against the arrogantly mundane approach of the strain of realism that, cloaked in the guise of humanism, has dominated modern Korean fiction. Choi challenges us to consider new possibilities for literature in an age when the divine is largely absent from literary art. -- Professor Kwon Youngmin Munhak sasang This lightly Kafkaesque fable from a South Korean writer presents a man who suddenly finds his world not quite right in increasingly strange ways... There is a lot of charm to [Ch'oe's] anxious novel, as if Thurber and Orwell had gotten together for a skull session. Kirkus Review An intriguing examination of contemporary life and identity -- the roles we play and the ones forced on us -- that allows for myriad interpretations. Complete Review

Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of contemporary Korean fiction, including Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-wōn and The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui, both published by University of Hawai'i Press. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Ju-Chan Fulton is, with Bruce Fulton, the cotranslator of The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui and Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-won.

This novel is a symbolic protest against the arrogantly mundane approach of the strain of realism that, cloaked in the guise of humanism, has dominated modern Korean fiction. Choi challenges us to consider new possibilities for literature in an age when the divine is largely absent from literary art. -- Professor Kwon Youngmin Munhak sasang This lightly Kafkaesque fable from a South Korean writer presents a man who suddenly finds his world not quite right in increasingly strange ways... There is a lot of charm to [Ch'oe's] anxious novel, as if Thurber and Orwell had gotten together for a skull session. Kirkus Review An intriguing examination of contemporary life and identity -- the roles we play and the ones forced on us -- that allows for myriad interpretations. Complete Review

Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of contemporary Korean fiction, including Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-wōn and The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui, both published by University of Hawai'i Press. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Ju-Chan Fulton is, with Bruce Fulton, the cotranslator of The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui and Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-won.

This novel is a symbolic protest against the arrogantly mundane approach of the strain of realism that, cloaked in the guise of humanism, has dominated modern Korean fiction. Choi challenges us to consider new possibilities for literature in an age when the divine is largely absent from literary art. -- Professor Kwon Youngmin Munhak sasang This lightly Kafkaesque fable from a South Korean writer presents a man who suddenly finds his world not quite right in increasingly strange ways... There is a lot of charm to [Ch'oe's] anxious novel, as if Thurber and Orwell had gotten together for a skull session. Kirkus Review An intriguing examination of contemporary life and identity -- the roles we play and the ones forced on us -- that allows for myriad interpretations. Complete Review