The Prisoner : A Memoir

Verso Books

The Prisoner: A Memoir\nby Hwang Sok-yong\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Hwang Sok-yong\nTitle: The Prisoner: A Memoir\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Autobiography: writers\nPublisher: Verso Books\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781839760839\nISBN-10: 1839760834\nRRP: \u00A330.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn 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 t.