The Old Garden

by Hwang Sok-yong

Book Overview

Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he drifts toward a small house in Kalmoe, where he and Yoon Hee once stole a few fleeting months of happiness while fleeing the authorities. In the company of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583228993
• ISBN13: 9781583228999
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"