ARGONAUT BOOKS

Winner of the National Book AwardIn DMZ Colony's weave of words, artfully used oral history and typographic experimentation, increasingly words give way to her father's documentary photos from the time of General Park Chung Hee's brutal putsch and dictatorship, a regime supported by the USA. DMZ Colony expresses mourning, a resistance to empire, and a hope in humankind. Reviews 'Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but "during the Korean ...Read More