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The Prisoner

Sora Kim-Russell

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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. 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—and in so doing, narrates the dramatic revolutions and transformations of one life and of Korean society during the twentieth century.

Language: English

Pages: 688

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Verso Books

Release: August 03, 2021

ISBN: 1839760834

ISBN 13: 9781839760839

The Prisoner

Sora Kim-Russell

0/5 ( ratings)

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. 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—and in so doing, narrates the dramatic revolutions and transformations of one life and of Korean society during the twentieth century.

Language: English

Pages: 688

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Verso Books

Release: August 03, 2021

ISBN: 1839760834

ISBN 13: 9781839760839

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