EAN: 9781917189064

MATER 2-10 - HWANG SOK-YONG TASCHENBUCH

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ¿International 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 depicts the
lives of ordinary working Koreans  starting from the Japanese colonial era  continuing through
Liberation  and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a powerful account that
captures a nation's longing for a rail line to reconnect North and South  a magical-realist
novel that manages to reflect the lives of modern industrial workers  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 grief of a divided nation and
bringing to life the cultural identity and trials and tribulations of the Korean people.

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