The novel centres on 2017's 'Candlelight Revolution', which culminated in the impeachmentof South Korea's first-ever female president, to examine how progressive movements coexist with social exclusion, particularly of women and sexual minorties, invisibilised in service of the 'greater cause'. schovat popis
From one of South Korea's most acclaimed young authors comes the story of two sisters, Sora and Nana, whose childhood was marked by their father's death in a factory accident and their mother Aeja's retreat into suicidal catatonia.
"Winner of the Man Booker International Prize."--Cover.
Imagine Cormac McCarthy writing about the boring lives of clerks and you'll anticipate something of the dystopic flavour of this gripping but socially bleak short story from Hwang. In a Korean world in which education has historically meant everything, the narrator realizes both that this is not true (through her partner in an essentially loveless affair) and that the recognition of this fact does not surprise her at all. The narrator is drawn into a larger story when she refuses to sell cigarettes to Jinju, a young woman in the company of two men who subsequently goes missing.