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Häftad, Engelska, 2024
168 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEInternational Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, Mater 2-10 vividly portrays the lives of ordinary Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a gripping account that captures a nation’s longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that manages to reflect the realities of modern industrial work, and a culmination of Hwang’s career — a masterpiece thirty years in the making.A true voice of a generation, Hwang shows again why he is unmatched when it comes to depicting the struggles of a divided nation and bringing to life the trials and tribulations of the Korean people.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
276 kr
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Oh Hyun Woo, a political activist, has served nearly twenty years of a life sentence, but when the Korean government relaxes its stance on such dissidents, he finds himself up for release. While he was growing old on the inside, though, things on the outside have changed, and he is soon adrift in a world full of noise and activity, multi-storey apartment blocks and mobile phones. As he struggles to adjust to the present, and to consider his future, Mr Oh is also forced to examine the past: family members he’s lost, one way or another; friends he’s no longer in touch with; comrades who have died or moved on – and the loss of the love of his life: it may have been two decades since they were together, but some relationships leave their mark no matter what.Both a haunting love story and an account of life in modern Korea, The Ancient Garden is about past and present; about loss, regret and looking to the future; and about how some things are simply meant to be, even when – tragically – events prove otherwise.'Hwang Sok-yong is undoubtedly the most powerful voice of the novel in East Asia today' Kenzaburo Oe
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
149 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
299 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2011212 kr
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Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation''s search for reconciliation.During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from malicious battling between Christian and Communist Koreans. Forty years later, Ryu Yosop, a minister living in America returns to his home village, where his older brother once played a notorious role in the bloodshed. Besieged by vivid memories and visited by the troubled spirits of the deceased, Yosop must face the survivors of the tragedy and lay his brother''s soul to rest.Faulkner-like in its intense interweaving narratives, The Guest is a daring and ambitious novel from a major figure in world literature.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
190 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2014240 kr
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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 The Shadow of Arms is a novel of the human condition rather than of the exploits and losses of one side or the other in war. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
575 kr
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On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'état and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds of students, activists and citizens were arrested, tortured and murdered. The events of the uprising shaped over a decade of resistance to the repressive South Korean regime, and paved the way for the country's democratisation in the 1990s. The subject of right-wing conspiracy and controversy in South Korea, the texts of Gwangju Uprising survived in underground circulation and were recently republished. This fresh translation by Slin Jung of the original text, compiled from eye-witness testimonies, forms a gripping and full account of both the events of the uprising and the political situation which preceded and followed the violence of those days. The edition contains a preface by Hwang Sok-yong, material which situates the uprising in its longer-term local and international context. The resulting volume is an unrivalled account of the movement for democracy and freedom in South Korea in the tumultuous period of the 1980s dictatorship. A vital collection for those interested in East Asian contemporary history and the global struggle for democracy.
E-bok
Engelska, 2022260 kr
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On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d''�tat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds of students, activists and citizens were arrested, tortured and murdered. The events of the uprising shaped over a decade of resistance to the repressive South Korean regime, and paved the way for the country''s democratisation in the 1990s. The subject of right-wing conspiracy and controversy in South Korea, the texts of Gwangju Uprising survived in underground circulation and were recently republished. This fresh translation by Slin Jung of the original text, compiled from eye-witness testimonies, forms a gripping and full account of both the events of the uprising and the political situation which preceded and followed the violence of those days. The edition contains a preface by Hwang Sok-yong, material which situates the uprising in its longer-term local and international context. The resulting volume is an unrivalled account of the movement for democracy and freedom in South Korea in the tumultuous period of the 1980s dictatorship. A vital collection for those interested in East Asian contemporary history and the global struggle for democracy.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
349 kr
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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 of the 1980s, Hwang's imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subject-of thought, of writing, of Cold War nations, of the heart. In this capacious memoir, Hwang's life is set against the volatile political backdrop of modern Korea, a country subject to colonialism, Cold War division, a devastating war, decades of authoritarian dictatorships, a mass democratic uprising, and a still-lingering, painful division between North and South. The Prisoner moves between Hwang's imprisonment and scenes from his life-as a boy in Pyongyang and Seoul, as a young activist protesting South Korea's military dictatorships, as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as a dissident writer first traveling abroad-and in so doing, braids his extraordinary life into the dramatic revolutions and transformations of Korean society during the twentieth century.
E-bok
Engelska, 2021198 kr
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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 of the 1980s, Hwang''s imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subject-of thought, of writing, of Cold War nations, of the heart. In this capacious memoir, Hwang''s life is set against the volatile political backdrop of modern Korea, a country subject to colonialism, Cold War division, a devastating war, decades of authoritarian dictatorships, a mass democratic uprising, and a still-lingering, painful division between North and South. The Prisoner moves between Hwang''s imprisonment and scenes from his life-as a boy in Pyongyang and Seoul, as a young activist protesting South Korea''s military dictatorships, as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as a dissident writer first traveling abroad-and in so doing, braids his extraordinary life into the dramatic revolutions and transformations of Korean society during the twentieth century.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
162 kr
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In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point.Park Minwoo is, by every measure, a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighbourhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in a rapidly modernising society. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work and ambition have brought him triumph and satisfaction. But when his company is investigated for corruption, he’s forced to reconsider his role in the transformation of his country.At the same time, he receives an unexpected message from an old friend, Cha Soona, a woman that he had once loved, and then betrayed. As memories return unbidden, Minwoo recalls a world he thought had been left behind — a world he now understands that he has helped to destroy.In At Dusk, one of Korea's most renowned and respected authors continues his gentle yet urgent project of evaluating Korea’s past, and examining the things, and the people, that have been given up in a never-ending quest to move forward.
E-bok
Engelska, 2023296 kr
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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 wisdom passed down the generations.
Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations of railroad workers, Mater 2-10 vividly portrays the struggles of ordinary Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a gripping account of a nation’s longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that reflects the blood, sweat, and tears shed by modern industrial labourers, and a culmination of Hwang’s career — a masterpiece thirty years in the making.
A true voice of a generation, Hwang shows again why he is unmatched when it comes to depicting the roots and reality of a divided nation and bringing to life the trials and tribulations of the Korean people.
E-bok
Engelska, 2017229 kr
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Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea’s glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father’s internment in a government ‘re-education camp’.
Living in a shack and supporting himself by weeding recyclables out of the refuse, at first Bugeye’s life on Flower Island is hard. But then one night he notices mysterious lights around the landfill. And when the ancient spirits that still inhabit the island’s landscape reveal themselves to him, Bugeye''s luck begins to change – but can it last?
Vibrant and enchanting, Familiar Things depicts a society on the edge of dizzying economic and social change, and is a haunting reminder to us all to be careful of what we throw away.
PRAISE FOR HWANG SOK-YONG
‘Hwang Sok-yong is one of the most read Korean writers in his country, and best known abroad. An activist for democracy and reconciliation with the North, in his books he melds his political fights with the Korean cultural imagination.’ Le Monde
E-bok
Engelska, 2018237 kr
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In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point.
Park Minwoo is a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighbourhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in his country. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work and ambition have brought him triumph and satisfaction. But that all begins to change when he receives a message from a childhood friend he once loved. As memories return unbidden, he recalls a world he thought he had left behind — a world he now realises that he has helped to destroy.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
252 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2019
262 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2023
391 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2024
312 kr
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E-bok
Tyska, 2019176 kr
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Denkt man an ein märchenhaftes Schicksal, so kommt man nicht sofort auf Kurtisanen und Frauenhandel, doch es ist tatsächlich ein alter koreanischer Mythos, der diesem Meisterwerk zugrunde liegt. Darin entführt Hwang Sok-Yong den Leser in das Asien des 19. Jahrhunderts, in eine Welt des Opiumhandels und der Prostitution: Von der Stiefmutter verkauft, findet sich die 15 Jahre alte Shim Chong plötzlich als Zweitfrau eines alten Chinesen wieder. Lenhwa, Lotosblüte, heißt sie jetzt, und alles ist so furchtbar anders, als sie es gewohnt ist. Viel zu essen hatte sie nie, und Betteln war ihr täglich Brot, denn sie diente ihrem blinden Vater als Augenpaar, doch der Alltag in dem fremden Haushalt kommt ihr erst recht vor wie ein böser Traum.Als ihr Ehemann stirbt, wird ihr schmerzlich bewusst, dass dies für sie nur die erste Station einer Odyssee ist, die sie, als Handelsware missbraucht, von den Ufern des Gelben Flusses über Shanghai, Taiwan und Singapur bis in das Land der Geishas führen soll. Nach unzähligen sinnlichen wie schmerzvollen Erfahrungen entdeckt Shim Chong eines Tages die Macht ihres Körpers und nimmt ihr Leben in die eigenen Hände.Selten ist es einem asiatischen Autor gelungen, das historische Ostasien in all seinen bunten Facetten einzufangen. Hier taucht man ein in diese fremde Welt und nimmt Anteil am Schicksal Lenhwas: ein Roman mit enormer Tiefe, ungemein fesselnd und mit schwindelerregender Leichtigkeit erzählt.
Inbunden, Tyska
278 kr
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E-bok
Tyska, 2022207 kr
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Am Rand der südkoreanischen Megacity Seoul wächst Minu in einem von Bandenkriminalität beherrschten Armutsviertel auf. Er kann studieren, arbeitet sich hoch und bringt es als Architekt mit eigener Baufirma zu Ansehen und Wohlstand. Eines Tages erhält er eine Nachricht von seiner Jugendliebe, und auf einmal erwachen alte Erinnerungen. Als er den Ort seiner Kindheit aufsucht, findet er aber keinerlei Spuren der Vergangenheit mehr. Seine Geschichte kreuzt sich mit der einer jungen Frau. Uhi will ihren Traum, sich als Theaterregisseurin durchzusetzen, nicht aufgeben. Mit Nachtschichten in einem 24-Stunden-Nahversorger kann sie kaum die Miete stemmen, doch sie verfolgt ihr Ziel, während Minu den Versäumnissen in seinem Leben nachgrübelt."Dämmerstunde" bildet eine tiefgründige Ergänzung zu "Vertraute Welt", diesem märchenhaften Roman, der auf der großen Mülldeponie am Rand von Seoul spielt. Hier wie dort geht es um die unterschwellige Wirkung einer fast ausgetilgten Welt auf die modernen Verhältnisse in einem Land, in dem beim Streben nach wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung wenig Rücksicht auf Verluste genommen wurde.
E-bok
Spanska, 2023176 kr
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"De algún modo no sentía el vacío bajo sus pies. Cuando hacía deporte caminando una y otra vez por la zona de la barandilla, sentía el impulso de caminar sobre el aire. Jinoh metió el cuerpo entre los barrotes, inclinándose, y extendió una pierna. Parecía que estaba pisando un mullido colchón o edredón. Sujeto con ambas manos a la barandilla, sacó los dos pies por fuera."Jinoh Lee, un obrero al que despiden de su fábrica, organiza una sentada a gran altitud. Encaramado en la pasarela de una chimenea de dieciséis pisos de altura durante las largas y amargas noches frías, Jinoh habla con sus antepasados y amigos, se pregunta por el significado de la vida y recuerda la sabiduría transmitida de generación en generación.Mater 2-10 es a la vez un relato épico que captura el anhelo de una nación por una línea ferroviaria que conectaría el Norte y el Sur, una novela mágico-realista y la culminación de la carrera literaria de Hwang Sok-yong, que consigue mostrar el dolor de una nación dividida al tiempo que retrata un siglo de historia coreana, desde la era colonial japonesa hasta el siglo XXI.
E-bok
Spanska, 201548 kr
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Cheong Jin, Corea del Norte. Una nina, la septima hija de la familia de un funcionario, es abandonada al poco de nacer por no ser varon. Rescatada por la abuela, le da el nombre de Bari, como la princesa de una antigua leyenda que sufrio el mismo destino y viajo a los confines de la tierra en busca de un elixir que trajera paz y sosiego a las almas de los vivos y de los muertos. Las arbitrariedades del regimen comunista y la hambruna desmembran la familia. A Bari no le queda mas remedio que cruzar el rio Duman y huir a China, donde el futuro no es mas halagueno. Tras una serie de dramaticas peripecias, termina su odisea en Londres, donde, inmigrante clandestina, demasiado joven para ser prostituida, tendra que emprender una nueva vida en una sociedad extrana en la que confluyen gentes, lenguas y credos de todo el mundo. Sus poderes premonitorios, heredados de su abuela, para detectar el dolor y las pesadillas de los demas, la ayudaran como a la princesa legendaria en su viaje al mas alla para obtener la redencion del espiritu. "e;Bari. La princesa abandonada"e; es una novela de aprendizaje, sobre las penurias del exilio, la soledad de la emigracion, el choque de culturas, la intolerancia politica y religiosa, la explotacion humana..., sobre las miserias y los males de nuestros dias. Hwang Sok-yong, como en algunas de sus anteriores obras, ha adaptado a nuestros tiempos una vieja leyenda coreana que, en este caso, destaca un elemento fundamental de su cultura tradicional como es la importancia de lo sobrenatural y la relacion de lo femenino con el mas alla. El resultado es una novela de una extrema belleza y sensibilidad, entranable, en la que lo magico, lo onirico y la realidad se entrecruzan con total armonia, haciendo de lo sobrenatural algo totalmente natural.
E-bok
Spanska, 2017122 kr
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Jeongho tiene catorce anos y mirada felina. Lo llaman Ojos Saltones. La escasez de ingresos de su madre les obliga a ambos a trasladarse a Nanjido, la Isla de las Flores, un inmenso vertedero al oeste de Seul donde las orquideas cedieron lugar a la basura y millares de personas malviven en chabolas engarzadas a las montanas de desperdicios. Una sociedad muy jerarquizada y codificada en la que todo, desde el trabajo a la ropa y la manutencion, proviene del vertedero, y gana mas quien consigue posicionarse mejor en la recuperacion de la basura. Ojos Saltones encuentra en Trasquilon, un nino medio calvo, a un amigo que le ira mostrando los secretos de tan sordido y nauseabundo lugar, donde el alcohol, el juego y la violencia son cotidianos. De la mano de Trasquilon y de una pandilla de jovenes marginados acudira al encuentro de los espiritus de los antiguos moradores cuando el lugar era un fertil terreno de cultivo donde se rendia culto a las tradiciones chamanicas. Un mundo invisible donde reina tanta harmonia como falta en el real. Ambientada en la Corea del despegue economico de los anos setenta, marcada por la modernizacion deshumanizada y sin escrupulos, Hwang Sok-yong nos descubre la otra cara del progreso, la de los marginados y excluidos, la de los desechos humanos que viven de los desechos de la sociedad de consumo. Hwang Sok-yong combina realidad, ficcion y fantasia en una novela de tintes dickensianos que, pese a la dureza de la vida que describe, emana lirismo, emociones y buenas dosis de humor. Una novela optimista y esperanzadora que resalta la belleza de vivir, incluso en ambientes que no animan a ello.
E-bok
Spanska, 2020136 kr
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Al terminar la conferencia, una joven se acerca a Minwoo Park, director de un gran estudio de arquitectura, y le entrega una nota, con un nombre y un numero de telefono. La joven es Woohee Jeong, una directora de teatro que vive en un semisotano mohoso, quien para llegar a fin de mes trabaja todas las noches en un supermercado y se alimenta de la comida caducada que tendria que tirar. En el crepusculo de su vida, Minwoo Park tiene la satisfaccion de haber triunfado, contribuyendo a la modernizacion de su pais, a pesar de haber nacido en la pobreza. Pero, con la nota, reaparecen los recuerdos del pasado, invitandole a sumergirse en un mundo que habia olvidado. Se ve forzado entonces a interrogarse sobre la corrupcion que reina en el ambito de la construccion, su propia responsabilidad en el afeamiento del paisaje urbano y la violencia ejercida contra los expropiados. Hwang Sok-yong es uno de los escritores mas famosos de Corea del Sur, muy sensibilizado con la problematica social y politica de su pais, lo que le ha valido la carcel y el exilio. Esta novela fue ganadora del Premio Emile Guimet en 2018 y nominada al Premio Man Booker International en 2019.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
198 kr
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Häftad, Thai, 2025, 12-15 år
529 kr
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