Description
A minister living in America returns to his North Korean home village to confront a massacre that was once buried beneath a convenient lie. In the years after the Korean War, the truth—rooted in brutal conflict between Christian and Communist Koreans—refuses to stay dead, drawing him into a reckoning with survivors, family memory, and the lingering presence of the dead. As he is haunted by what his brother did and what he himself carried from later wars, he must decide whether reconciliation is possible without first naming the violence that shaped them. Blending historical realism with lyrical, psychologically charged storytelling, this novel explores guilt, collective amnesia, ideological fracture, and the moral cost of “forgetting,” in a style characteristic of Hwang Sok-yong’s powerful, socially engaged fiction.
Available Editions
paperback
Seven Stories Press
Published Mar 2, 2007
234 pages
ISBN: 9781583227510
Reviews
No ratings yet. Be the first!
No written reviews yet.
Details
First Published
2007
Language
eng
Translation
From: kor
Content Warnings
No content warnings identified.