Hwang Sok Yong Books
The Guest
By Maya West, Hwang Sok Yong Translated From The Korean By Kyung Ja Chun
Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation.During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in Nort...
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The Prisoner
A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelistIn 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five y...
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Gwangju Uprising
By Jeon Yong Ho, Hwang Sok Yong Lee Jae Eui
The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellionOn May 18, 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d’état and the...
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