Mater 2-10
shortlisted for the international booker prize 2024
$32.83
- Paperback
600 pages
- Release Date
29 May 2023
Summary
Mater 2-10: A Century of Korean Echoes
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
International Booker-nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story - an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history.
In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-storey factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922310965 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922310964 |
| Author: | Hwang Sok-Yong |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 29 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 658g |
| Dimensions: | 257mm x 186mm x 36mm |
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About The Author
Hwang Sok-Yong
Hwang Sok-yong was born in 1943 and is arguably Korea’s most renowned author. In 1993, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for an unauthorised trip to the North to promote exchange between artists in the two Koreas. Five years later, he was released on a special pardon by the new president. The recipient of Korea’s highest literary prizes, he has been shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger and was awarded the Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature for his book At Dusk. His novels and short stories are published in North and South Korea, Japan, China, France, Germany, and the United States. Previous novels include The Ancient Garden, The Story of Mister Han, The Guest, and The Shadow of Arms.
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