Bøger af Hwang Jungeun

The novel centres on 2017's 'Candlelight Revolution', which culminated in the impeachmentof South Korea's first-ever female president, to examine how progressive movements coexist with social exclusion, particularly of women and sexual minorties, invisibilised in service of the 'greater cause'.

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One Hundred Shadows is an oblique, hard-edged novel tinged with offbeat fantasy, set in a slum electronics market in central Seoul earmarked for demolition.