The Prisoner: A Memoir by Hwang Sok-yong

The Prisoner: A Memoir

Hwang Sok-yong with Sora Kim-Russell (Translator), Anton Hur (Translator)

624 pages digital 2017

3 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 novelistIn 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center. Hwang’s imprison...

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