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At Dusk by Hwang Sok-Yong
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Parl Minwoo is a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighbourhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in his country. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work and ambition have brought him triumph and satisfaction. But that all begins to change when he recei ...Show more
Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-Yong
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about- a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Populated by those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a 're-education c ...Show more
Gwangju Uprising - The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong; Lee Jae-Eui; Jeon Yong-Ho
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'état and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over th ...Show more
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-Yong (translated by by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story - an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on a family of rail workers, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of workers and common folk, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing throu ...Show more
Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-Yong
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A modern-day quest novel from one of Korea's most renowned novelists.Princess Bari tells the story of a young girl, frail and brave, who escapes from famine and death in North Korea in the 1990s. Seeking refuge in China before crossing oceans in the hold of a cargo ship, she disembarks in London, with i ...Show more
The Prisoner: A Memoir by Hwang Sok-Yong
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
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 de ...Show more
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