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The Prisoner : A Memoir by Hwang Sok-yong, Sora Kim-Russell (translation) is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Prisoner : A Memoir about?
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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hwang Sok-yong, Sora Kim-Russell (translation)
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781839760839
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Political Science, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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