| Title | : | The Prisoner |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Hwang Sok-Yong, Sora Kim-Russell & Anton Hur |
| Release | : | 2021-08-03 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Politics & Current Events, World Affairs, History, Asian History |
| Size | : | 1528979 |
| 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. |
