A collection of fourteen short stories about the difficulties faced by the Dalit caste, characterized as "untouchable", either in town or in the countryside. Omprakash Valmiki, born in 1950 in the state of Uttar Pradesh and died in November 2013, grew up in a family of sweepers who was part of the untouchable caste. Engaged author and important figure of the Indian literature, Valmiki is the author of Joothan, the autobiography of an intouchable (Joothan, autobiographie d’un intouchable), published by L'Asiathèque.

The author, a teacher at INALCO, introduces us to the Hungarian philosophical and literary consciousness through a wide range of periods, from the songs of the Sabbataire in the 16th century, to the authors of the 20th century, all the while highlighting they crucial roles played by a magazine like Nyugat or a musician like Barto, as much as the contribution of a Madach, an Ady or a Kosztolanyi.

In Japan, there is an art of aging well, which the writer discovered in Ogura, a small village nestled in the mountains not far from Kyoto. Borrowing the gaze and the voice of one of its inhabitants, an old lady of astounding kindness and wisdom, the author brought back these letters, impressionist chronicles of a country where time seems suspended.

An intimate story by an expert on Asian cultures that subtly blends the literary with a portrait of society.

Daily life, family and professional relationships, hobbies, history, language and writing: 17 themes to understand the culture of South Korea, with references to specific terms of the Korean language.

Through the dramatic, picturesque, or frankly comic episodes, that punctuate the harsh life of the islanders and that Lim Chul-woo renders here with immense tenderness, it is the authenticity of human relations in these village communities isolated from the modern world that becomes evident and that touches us immeasurably.

After a childhood both rough and happy with his grandparents on the island of Wando, in the south of Korea, the writer tells about his adolescence and his difficult move to a poor suburb of Kwanju, on the mainland. His mother struggles to support him and his two sisters, one of whom is mentally disabled.

A collection of six short stories in which the characters witness their lives turned upside down by unforeseen situations or changes of habit.

In order to marry her Korean fiancé, a young French woman meets his family and must obtain the consent of his grandfather, an old scholar specializing in plants.