Bøger af Hwang Sok-yong

Another touching and topical novel by the author of Familiar Things which we published successfully last year.Hwang Sok-yong is Koreäs most renowned author and is a leading voice in Asian literature.

Episk slægtsroman af en af Koreas største forfattere, der har siddet i fængsel for politiske aktivisme.I nutidens Seoul protesterer fabriksarbejderen Yi Jino mod sin uretmæssige fyring ved at sætte sig på toppen af en seksten etagers høj fabriksskorsten i 410 dage. Under de lange, ensomme nætter oplever han gennem hallucinationer sin slægts voldsomme historie.Familien kæmper mod den japanske kolonimagts undertrykkelse og for arbejderklassens rettigheder. Jinos grandonkel tilslutter sig det kommunistiske parti og ender sine dage i fængslet. Mens Jinos bedstefar, som er en af de få koreanere, der er blevet lokomotivingeniører, må flygte til Nordkorea for at undslippe forfølgelse efter at have organiseret strejker mod japansk kontrol over Koreas jernbaner. Også Jinos synske bedstemor deltager i strejker efter at være blevet fyret under en massefyring på en tekstilfabrik.Mater 2-10 er en storslået roman, der strækker sig over 100 års koreansk historie, og en bevægende familiesaga om modstand og tab, om triumfer og de stærke bånd, der kan binde en familie sammen.

English translation copyright date 2009.

A sweeping account of modern Korean history told through one writer's imprisonment-in time, in language, and in a divided country-from Korea's most acclaimed novelist.

In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess who undertakes a quest for an elixir that will bring peace to the souls of the dead.

A Korean novel about love and imprisonment

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 returns to his home village, where his older brother once played a notorious role in the bloodshed. Besieged by vivid memories and visited by the troubled spirits of the deceased, Yosop must face the survivors of the tragedy and lay his brother's soul to rest.Faulkner-like in its intense interweaving narratives, The Guest is a daring and ambitious novel from a major figure in world literature.