Sok - Yong Hwang
Sok - Yong Hwang - The Prisoner A Memoir - Hardcover
Sok - Yong Hwang - The Prisoner A Memoir - Hardcover
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Description: 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.
Title: The Prisoner A Memoir
Author(s): Sok - Yong Hwang
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781839760839
Pages: 624 Pages
Publication Date: 8/3/2021
Category: Military History: Post Ww2 Conflicts
Description: 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.
Title: The Prisoner A Memoir
Author(s): Sok - Yong Hwang
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781839760839
Pages: 624 Pages
Publication Date: 8/3/2021
Category: Military History: Post Ww2 Conflicts
