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Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed & aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he drifts toward a small house in Kalmoe, where he & Yoon Hee once stole a few fleeting months of happiness while fleeing the authorities. In the company of her diaries, he relives & reviews his life, trying to find meaning in the revolutionary struggle that consumed their youth--a youth of great energy & optimism, victim to implacable history.Hyun Woo weighs the worth of his own life, spent in prison, & that of the strong-willed artist Yoon Hee, whose involvement in rebel groups took her to Berlin & the fall of the wall. With great poignancy, Hwang Sok-yong grapples with the immortal questions--the endurance of love, the price of a commitment to causes--while depicting a generation that sacrificed youth, liberty, & often life, for the dream of a better tomorrow.Hwang Sok-yong was born in 1943 & is arguably Korea’s most renowned author. In 1993, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for an una

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Author

Sok-Yong, Jay Oh (translation)

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609800383

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, History, Literary Fiction