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At Dusk by Hwang Sok-Yong
$27.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Parl 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 recei ...Show more
Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-Yong
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about- a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Populated by 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 're-education c ...Show more
Gwangju Uprising - The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong; Lee Jae-Eui; Jeon Yong-Ho
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion 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 th ...Show more
Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-Yong
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
A modern-day quest novel from one of Korea's most renowned novelists.Princess Bari tells the story of a young girl, frail and brave, who escapes from famine and death in North Korea in the 1990s. Seeking refuge in China before crossing oceans in the hold of a cargo ship, she disembarks in London, with i ...Show more
The Guest by Hwang Sok-Yong
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
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 atrocitie ...Show more
The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-Yong
$54.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopian 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 towar ...Show more
The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-Yong; Jay Oh (Translator)
$44.99 AUD
Category: General
As South Korea violently changed from a military dictatorship to a democratic state, an idealistic activist and a brazen painter shared a brief love affair that would impact the rest of their lives. Drifting to an old house in the countryside where they once sought refuge, Hyun Woo finds Yoon Hee's lett ...Show more
The Shadow of Arms by Sok-Yong Hwang
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
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 ...Show more
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