Text is clean. Cover shows light wear. Dust jacket shows some some wear, light fading along edges and minimal edgewear at head/base of spine. Language Notes: Text: English, Korean (translation) ; From dust jacket flap: . . . In face, for Kim Tong-ni, intermixing of seemingly antagonistic forces for the ultimate good occurs more frequently than in many other writers of his generation. The penchant for dialectical thinking seems to have enable the novelist to find a connecting point even between Christianity and oriental Shamanism. He says in his Preface, for instance, that he wanted to "make it clear that there is connection between Jesus' miracle-working, Hadad's astrological prescience and the theme of Shamanism that I deal with in some of my fictional works. "; Korean Novels, Plays, and Poetry Series; Vol. 1; 361 pages