The Prisoner: A Memoir by Hwang Sok-yong

The Prisoner: A Memoir

Hwang Sok-yong

688 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history politics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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A sweeping account of imprisonment—in time, in language, and in a divided country—from Korea’s most acclaimed novelist.In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center. Hwang’s impriso...

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