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The Prisoner - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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The Prisoner - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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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.
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