The Prisoner: A Memoir

di Hwang Sok-Yong (Autore)

Sora Kim-Russell (Traduttore)

Verso Books, 2021

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's life is set against the volatile political backdrop of modern Korea, a country subject to colonialism, Cold War division, a devastating war, decades of authoritarian dictatorships, a mass democratic uprising, and a still-lingering, painful division between North and South. The Prisoner moves between Hwang's imprisonment and scenes from his life-as a boy in Pyongyang and Seoul, 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, braids his extraordinary life into the dramatic revolutions and transformations of Korean society during the twentieth century.

• Autore: Hwang Sok-Yong
• Traduttore: Sora Kim-Russell
• Editore: Verso Books
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 624 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 153 mm
• Peso: 722 gr.
• EAN: 9781839760839

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