Hwang Sok-Yong

• Nov-2005
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Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation.During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day m...

• Sep-2009
• / Literary
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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 and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he l...

• Apr-2017
• / Literary
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"A vivid and enchanting novel, by one of South Korea''s foremost writers, in a haunting reminder to us all to be careful of what we throw away.Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea''s glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast la...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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A modern-day quest novel from one of Korea’s most renowned novelists. Princess Bari tells the story of a young girl, frail and brave, who escapes from famine and death in North Korea in the 1990s. Seeking refuge in China before crossing oceans in ...

• Jul-2019
• / Literary
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In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point.Park Minwoo is a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighbourhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in his country. Now the direct...

• Jun-2023
• / General Fiction
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Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story -- an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on a family of rail workers, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of workers and common folk, ...