The Descendants of Cain (UNESCO Collection of Representative by Ji-moon Suh,Sun-won Hwang,Julie Pickering,J. Suh

By Ji-moon Suh,Sun-won Hwang,Julie Pickering,J. Suh

Hwang Sun-won, probably the main liked and revered Korean author of the twentieth century, dependent this remarkable novel on his personal stories in his North Korean domestic village among the tip of worldwide battle II and the eve of the Korean struggle whilst Korea were divided into North and South by means of its "liberators" - the USA and the Soviet Union. during this tale the Soviet-backed communist get together, utilizing the promise of land reform, units humans at every one other's throat. Portrayed here's a whole neighborhood stuck within the political and social firestorm that brings out the selfishness, cruelty and lack of awareness of straightforward humans, but in addition indicates their loyalty and the Aristocracy. Compelling the following, too, is a heroine who represents the "eternally female" for all Korean males, and the environment, the cruel political, psychic and actual panorama of rural postwar North Korea not often glimpsed through the skin global. Hwang Sun-won is an artist of consummate delicacy and subtlety, and his writing is marked through willing mental perception and steely asceticism. whereas 3 collections of his brief tales have seemed in Hong Kong and the West, "The Descendants of Cain" is the 1st English translation of a Hwang Sun-won novel.

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