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The Guest

The Guest

Sok-Yong, Hwang
Chun, Kyung-Ja
West, Maya

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1583227512
ISBN13: 9781583227510
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Oct 7 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.36 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Translated by Chun Kyung-Ja and Maya West

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, Hwang Sok-Yong's The Guest is a daring and ambitious novel from a major figure in world literature.

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