# The Prisoner

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- Book: [The Prisoner](https://www.bookquiver.com/hwang-sok-yong/the-prisoner) ([The Prisoner.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hwang-sok-yong/the-prisoner.md))
- Authors: [Hwang Sok-yong](https://www.bookquiver.com/hwang-sok-yong), [Sora Kim-Russell](https://www.bookquiver.com/sora-kim-russell), [Anton Hur](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-hur)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-18-3976-083-9
- Pages: 624
- Published: 2021-08-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years...