The Prisoner

Digital Library of Korean Literature
Books
Translated Books

Translated Books

We continually collect and provide bibliographic information on overseas publications of Korean literature (translated into over 48 languages).

English(English) Book Available

The Prisoner

About the Books

Title Sub: A Memoir
Author: Hwang Sok yong
Co-Author: -
Translator: Sora Kim-Russell,Anton Hur
Publisher: 버소 북스
Published Year: 2021
Country: UNITED STATES
Classification: literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
Original Title: 수인:황석영 자전
Original Language: Korean(한국어)
Romanization of Original
ISBN: 9781839760839
Page: 624
Volume

About the Author

Hwang Sok-yong
Birth : 1943 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Sok-yong
Family Name : Hwang
Korean Name : 황석영
ISNI : 0000000121322250
Works : 121

About the Original Work

수인:황석영 자전
Author : Hwang Sok-yong
Published Year : 2017
English Title : The Prisoner

More About the Original Work

Libraries

Descriptions(Languages 1)

English(English)

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.

Source : https://www.amazon.com/Prisoner-Memoir-Hwang-Sok-yong/dp/1839760834

E-books & Audiobooks1