Name: The Prisoner: A Memoir
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Author: Sok-Yong, Hwang ; Kim-Russell, Sora ; Hur, Anton
ISBN: 9781839760839

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Physical Book

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Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

624

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm

Weight

0.74 kg.

ISBN13

9781839760839

Synopsis "The Prisoner: A Memoir"

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well-known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwang's imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subject--of thought, of writing, of Cold War nations, of the heart. In this capacious memoir, Hwang moves between his imprisonment and his life--as a boy in Pyongyang, as a young activist protesting South Korea's military dictatorships, as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as a dissident writer first traveling abroad--and in so doing, narrates the dramatic revolutions and transformations of one life and of Korean society during the twentieth century.

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