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Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no traceof the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopian dreams are gone.His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Heethe woman he loved died three years ago. A broken man he drifts toward asmall house in Kalmoe where he and Yoon Hee once stole a few fleeting monthsof happiness while fleeing the authorities. In the company of her diaries HyumWoo relives and reviews his life trying to find meaning in the revolutionarystruggle that consumed their youtha youth of great energy and optimismvictim to implacable history. He weighs the worth of his own life spent inprison and that of the strongwilled artist Yoon Hee whose involvement inrebel groups took her to Berlin and the fall of the Wall. With great poignancyHwang Sokyong grapples with the immortal questionsthe endurance of love theprice of a commitment to causeswhile depicting a generation that sacrificedyouth liberty and often life for the dream of a better tomorrow. Born in1943 Hwang Sokyong is a Korean writer of world renown and the recipient ofnumerous international awards and honors. His work which grapples with thetroubled recent history of his divided country has been the cause of hisimprisonment his exile and finally that rare achievement of a wide readershipand appreciation in both North and South Korea. The Old Garden is by theauthors own admission his most deeply autobiographical work. «
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