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12 rows · The Guest: Author: Hwang Sok-Yong: Genre: Novel: Written: (Eng. ) Length: pages: Author: Hwang Sok-Yong.  · Translated by Kyung-Ja Chun 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 . Hwang’s novels in English includeThe Old Garden, a tragic love story set against the backdrop of the end of the Cold War and South Korea's political revolution of the eighties; The Guest, based on the true account of a violent clash between Communist and Christian neighbors in a Korean village town; and The Shadow of Arms, inspired by his experience as a Korean soldier in the Vietnam www.doorway.ru by: 8.

Exile, guilt and acceptance are the three powerful themes animating "The Guest," an unflinching, ambitious novel that's the first to be published in America by Hwang Sok-Yong, a respected Korean. THE GUEST. by Hwang Sok-Yong translated by Kyung-Ja Chun Maya West ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, Expert, idiomatic translation renders visible a story that helps explain the present weirdness in North Korea. The Guest Hwang Sok-Yong, Author, Kyung-Ja Chun, Translator, Maya West, Translator, trans. from the Korean by Kyung-Ja Chun and Maya West. Seven Stories $ (p) ISBN

The Guest: Author: Hwang Sok-Yong: Genre: Novel: Written: (Eng. ) Length: pages. Hwang’s novels in English includeThe Old Garden, a tragic love story set against the backdrop of the end of the Cold War and South Korea's political revolution of the eighties; The Guest, based on the true account of a violent clash between Communist and Christian neighbors in a Korean village town; and The Shadow of Arms, inspired by his experience as a Korean soldier in the Vietnam War. . 'The Guest,' by Hwang Sok-Yong. The Korean War () is a historic event that had a great impact on the Korean Peninsula and the people living on it. Of the many different faces of war, big or small, that haphazardly happened across the war-stricken peninsula, Hwang Sok-Yong's novel "The Guest" highlights one incident that happened in a small town in Hwanghae-do, in present-day North Korea.