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The Investigation

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Author
JUNG-MYUNG LEE
Co-Author
-
Translator
Chi-Young Kim ,Chi-Young Kim
Publisher
Mantle
Published Year
2014
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Historical > Biographical > Political > Social

Original Title
별을 스치는 바람
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Byeoreul Seuchineun Baram
ISBN
9780230768710, 230768717
Page
325
Volume

About the Author

  • Lee Jung-myung
  • Birth : 1965 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Jung-myung
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 이정명
  • ISNI : 000000006547569X
  • Works : 27
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Jung-Myung Lee's extraordinary THE INVESTIGATION, translated by Chi-Young Kim, is set in a period of Korean history that isn't widely known in the West. In 1944, with the region still under Japanese rule, Korean inmates of Fukuoka prison are not allowed to use their own language. A young guard is ordered to find the killer of another guard and stumbles on a sinister conspiracy - and the work of a Korean poet who writes clandestine verses of rare beauty. Inspired by the work of Yun Dong-ju, the dissident Korean writer who died in Fukuoka in 1945, this is a heart-wrenching novel with many unexpected twists. (Sunday Times)

 

In Jung-Myung Lee's The Investigation, the equally merciless Japanese occupation of Korea drives a Second World War mystery set in Fukuoka prison. A forbidden passion for poetry binds the three protagonists: the jailed Korean bard Yun Dong-ju, whose life inspired the novel; the outwardly tough guard Sugiyama, and Yuichi, the bookish Japanese narrator. Lee's story celebrates the power of poetry, of books and of reading, to lend us a "sixth sense" that can heal and transform even in the harshest times. In this hellish jail, poetry both subverts and redeems, and "Only the purest language could testify about the most brutal era". Now, Britain's penal authorities become the "executioners of literature" as they ban the gift of books. So this Korean bestseller deserves to fly across our own prison walls. (Independent)

 

Source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Investigation-Jung-myung-Lee/dp/0230768717

E-books & Audiobooks3

  • Spanish(Español) E-books
    El guardia, el poeta y el prisionero [Kindle Edition]
    Lee Jung-Myung / 이정명 / 2004 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Historical > Biographical > Political > Social
  • Spanish(Español) E-books
    El guardia, el poeta y el prisionero
    Lee Jung-Myung / 이정명 / 2014 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Historical > Biographical > Political > Social
  • English(English) E-books
    The Investigation
    Jung-myung Lee / 이정명 / 2014 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Historical > Biographical > Political > Social

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