The Prisoner: A Memoir

by Hwang Sok-yong

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist

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 democracy movement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839760834
• ISBN13: 9781839760839
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"