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.

South Korea, April 16, 2014, the  Sewol sinks off the southwest coast. 304 people died in this shipwreck, most of them teenagers on a school trip.

The author, advisor at the Korean Cultural Center in Paris, offers a guide to discover and understand Korean customs. He underlines the subtleties of their personality and the risks of misunderstanding during meetings with French people. Many examples and anecdotes illustrate his words.

At the request of the Russian Turkish consul, a Kurdish Sunni mullah describes the main aspects of social organization and Kurdish traditions: the structure of the family and villages, the place of women, the rules of conduct, the celebrations and ceremonies, religion and beliefs.

General introduction to Indian languages and literatures and presentation of each of them: Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Each language corresponds to a choice of authors whose extracts of texts are proposed as well as a bibliography of books published in French translation. The work ends with a panorama of theater in India.

Arborescences is the first work in the new “Abécédaire de l’imaginaire” collection. It includes three short stories: “Le nid” by Chi Hui (translated from Chinese), “Une fluctuation dans le vide” by Aiki Mira (translated from German) and “Marginalia” by luvan, as well as illustrations by art students from the Haute école des arts du Rhin. This work, the first in the collection, has the thematic title Arborescences. The works that follow will have thematic titles taken from the letters of the alphabet.

This study devoted to the Mämiminbin epic is part of a cycle of investigations among the Palawan, blowpipe hunter-hunter, who live in the mountains of an island in the Philippine archipelago. Text of the song followed by an interpretative analysis of the epic. With photos and documents relating to music.