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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE?International Bookernominated 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 portrays the lives of ordinary Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a gripping account that captures a nation's longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that manages to reflect the realities of modern industrial work, 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 struggles of a divided nation and bringing to life the trials and tribulations of the Korean people.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE?International Bookernominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story an epic, multi-generational tale... Read more

    Publisher: Scribe Publications
    Publication Date: 1/23/2024
    ISBN13: 9781917189064, 978-1917189064
    ISBN10: 1917189060

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE?International Bookernominated 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 portrays the lives of ordinary Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a gripping account that captures a nation's longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that manages to reflect the realities of modern industrial work, 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 struggles of a divided nation and bringing to life the trials and tribulations of the Korean people.

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