The descendants of Cain / Hwang Sun-wŏn ; translated by Suh Ji-moon and Julie Pickering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hwang, Sun-wŏn, 1915-2000.

Standardized Title:

Kʻain ŭi huye. English

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Fiction.

Land tenure.

Landowners--Fiction.

Landowners.

Korea--Fiction.

Korea.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

ix, 181 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe/UNESCO Pub., [1997]

Summary:

Hwang Sun-won is one of the most beloved and respected Korean writers of the twentieth century. This extraordinary novel is based on his own experience in his North Korean village at a historic turning point for modern Korea between the end of World War II (and with it the end of the 35-year Japanese occupation of Korea) and the eve of the Korean War just when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" - the United States and the Soviet Union. Portrayed here is an entire community caught in a political and social firestorm that scathingly reveals the selfishness, cruelty, and ignorance of simple people, but also their loyalty and nobility.

Notes:

"An east gate book."

ISBN:

0765601362

0765601370

OCLC:

36892693