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Author:
Hwang Sok-yong, Anton Hur, Sora Kim-Russell
Publisher:
Verso Books
Date:
August 3, 2021
The Korean author of At Dusk reflects on his life as an activist and dissident writer, including his time in the 1990s in the Seoul Detention Center after a visit to North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War.
What The Reviewers Say
Hwang Sok-yong's expansive memoir—incisively translated by Anton Hur and Sora Kim-Russell—vividly captures a South Korean writer's literal and metaphorical imprisonment.
... sweeping.
... this sprawling, detailed chronicle of his life and various imprisonments, [Hwang] delivers a vivid depiction of some of the historical currents that shaped Korea in the 20th century.
