Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he drifts toward a small house in Kalmoe, where he and Yoon Hee once stole a few fleeting months of happiness while fleeing the authorities. In the company of her diaries, he relives and reviews his life, trying to find meaning in the revolutionary struggle that consumed their youthâ€”a youth of great energy and optimism, victim to implacable history.Hyun Woo weighs the worth of his own life, spent in prison, and that of the strong-willed artist Yoon Hee, whose involvement in rebel groups took her to Berlin and the fall of the wall. With great poignancy, Hwang Sok-yong grapples with the immortal questionsâ€”the endurance of love, the price of a commitment to causesâ€”while depicting a generation that sacrificed youth, liberty, and often life, for the dream of a better tomorrow.

The Ancient Garden (English and Korean Edition)

HWANG SOK-YONG

MacMillan Hardback Omes

The Shadow of Arms (Cornell East Asia Series No 73)

<p>A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author’s experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides. Scenes of battle are breathtakingly well told. The plot is thick with intrigue and complex subplots. But ultimately <i>The Shadow of Arms</i> is a novel of the human condition rather than of the exploits and losses of one side or the other in war. </p>

Literature & Fiction

Suk-Young Hwang

Contemporary

Cornell Univ.

At Dusk

Literary

Scribe Publications

Mater 2-10

Genre Fiction

Princess Bari

Familiar Things

Scribble

La Route De Sampo

Monsieur Han

ZULMA

Le vieux jardin

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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