Mater 2-10

Title: Mater 2-10 Author: Hwang Sok-Yong ISBN: 9781957363318 Publisher: Scribe US Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1536620 Publisher Description: International Booker-nominated 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-story 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 2-10 vividly 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