Mater 2-10 : shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 Paperback / softback
by Hwang Sok-yong
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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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- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Scribe Publications
- Publication Date:23/05/2024
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- ISBN:9781917189064
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Pre-OrderFree UK DeliveryThis title is available for pre-order
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Scribe Publications
- Publication Date:23/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781917189064