Mater 2-10 /T

Book Title: Mater 2-10 /T
ISBN: 9781913348953
By Author(s):SOK-YONG HWANG
By Publisher:SCRIBE
Format:TPB

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

International Bookernominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history.

In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-storey factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations.

Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations of railroad workers,Mater 2-10vividly portrays the struggles 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 of a nations longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that reflects the blood, sweat, and tears shed by modern industrial labourers, and a culmination of Hwangs 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 roots and reality of a divided nation and bringing to life the trials and tribulations of the Korean people.