Description
| Product ID: | 9781839760839 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Prisoner |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir |
| Authors: | Author: Hwang Sok-Yong, Sora Kim-Russell |
| Page Count: | 624 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, Military history, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Memoirs, Military history, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A sweeping account of modern Korean history told through one writer's imprisonment-in time, in language, and in a divided country-from Korea's most acclaimed novelist. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-08-03 |