The Guest
A Novel
$28.04
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
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 massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from malicious battling between Christian and Communist Koreans. Forty years later, Ryu Yosop, a minister living in America re…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583227510 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583227512 |
| Author: | Hwang Sok-yong |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 228mm x 154mm |
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“Vivid snapshots from the Korean War and surreal encounters with ghosts intersect in the first major US release by award-winning Korean novelist Sok-yong…an ambitious exploration of a post-war survivor’s chaotic psyche.” - Publisher’s Weekly “A provocative novel [that] takes the reader to the edge of a gruesome scene, then steps back and focuses on the sort of mundane detail that sticks in one’s mind more firmly than any blood-splattered image.” - Time Asia Magazine”
About The Author
Hwang Sok-yong
HWANG SOK-YONGis 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; andThe 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) andGaebapbaragibyeol(The Evening Star), a coming of age novel that Hwang wrote as a blog.
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