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The Old Garden (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781583228999)
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xPolitical 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 loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he drifts toward a small house in Kalmoe, where he and Yoon Hee once stole a few fleeting months of happiness while fleeing the authorities. In the company of her diaries, he relives and reviews his life, trying to find meaning in the revolutionary struggle that consumed their youth--a youth of great energy and optimism, victim to implacable history.
Hyun Woo weighs the worth of his own life, spent in prison, and that of the strong-willed artist Yoon Hee, whose involvement in rebel groups took her to Berlin and 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, and often life, for the dream of a better tomorrow.
Author: Hwang Sok-Yong
ISBN-10: 1583228993
ISBN-13: 9781583228999
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.80d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/20/2009 pg. 120
Multicultural Review 08/01/2010 pg. 38
Hyun Woo weighs the worth of his own life, spent in prison, and that of the strong-willed artist Yoon Hee, whose involvement in rebel groups took her to Berlin and 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, and often life, for the dream of a better tomorrow.
Author: Hwang Sok-Yong
ISBN-10: 1583228993
ISBN-13: 9781583228999
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.80d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/20/2009 pg. 120
Multicultural Review 08/01/2010 pg. 38
By Hwang Sok-Yong
xHWANG SOK-YONG is one of the contemporary masters of Korean literature. His work, which grapples with the troubled history of his divided country, has resulted in his imprisonment, his exile, and the rare achievement of a wide international readership. Hwang's novels in English includeThe Old Garden, a tragic love story set against the backdrop of the end of the Cold War and South Korea's political revolution of the eighties; The Guest, based on the true account of a violent clash between Communist and Christian neighbors in a Korean village town; and The Shadow of Arms, inspired by his experience as a Korean soldier in the Vietnam War. Some of his recent bestsellers in Korea, where Hwang is among that country's most popular writers, includeBaridegi (Princess Bari) and Gaebapbaragibyeol (The Evening Star), a coming of age novel that Hwang wrote as a blog.
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