Лучшие книги Хван Согёна

Прошлое и настоящее страны переплетаются в судьбах героев — молодой девушки, делающей первые робкие шаги в театральной режиссуре, и прожившего непростую жизнь успешного бизнесмена. За ним — целое поколение. Выходцы из трущоб, которые пробились на самый верх и достигли всего, о чем можно только мечтать, попутно разучившись чувствовать. Пытаясь вырваться из нищеты, забыть о собственном убогом детстве, они включились в безумную гонку, рано или поздно перестав понимать, зачем и куда они бегут и ради чего идут по чужим головам. Ради счастья своих детей? А нужно ли их детям такое счастье? И какое оно — счастье нового поколения? Находят ли молодые…

В романе «Привычный мир» описывается жизнь обитателей мусорной свалки. Гигантский мусорный полигон в окрестностях мегаполиса становится пристанищем для потерявших кров подростка по прозвищу Пучеглазый и его матери. Городские отходы, бесперебойно поставляемые мусоровозами на «Остров цветов», как называют полигон его обитатели, становятся средством дохода, пропитания и развлечений новичков. Но однажды Пучеглазому открывается тайна этих мест. Пригрезилось ли это в ядовитом тумане испарений или на «Острове» и впрямь существуют коренные обитатели, наделенные волшебной силой?

Роман "Принцесса Пари" можно смело назвать исторической эпопеей, в которой переплетаются вопросы войны и границ, рас и религий, реального и потустороннего миров, культуры и идеологии, в нём затрагиваются темы прощения и спасения израненных и надломленных человеческих душ. В этом романе Хван Согён, с одной стороны, вышел за рамки действительности и позаимствовал легенду об изгнаннице, которая впоследствии стала принцессой, а с другой - правдиво описал реальную жизнь XXI столетия. Странствуя из Северной Кореи в Китай и дальше - в Лондон, главная героиня сталкивается с отчаянием и насилием, военными и террористическими актами, которые царят…

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.

Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, MATER 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a powerful account that captures a nation’s longing for a rail line to reconnect North and South, a magical-realist novel that depicts reflect the lives of modern industrial workers, and a culmination of Hwang’s 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 grief of a divided nation and bringing to life the cultural identity and trials and tribulations of the Korean

Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he drifts toward a small house in Kalmoe, where he and Yoon Hee once stole a few fleeting months of happiness while fleeing the authorities. In the company of her diaries, he relives and reviews his life, trying to find meaning in the revolutionary struggle that consumed their youth-a youth of great energy and optimism, victim to implacable history. Hyun Woo weighs the worth of his own life, spent in prison, and that of the strong-willed artist Yoon Hee, whose involvement in rebel groups took her to Berlin and the fall of the wall. With great poignancy, Hwang Sok-yong grapples with the immortal questions-the endurance of love, the price of a commitment to causes-while depicting a generation that sacrifi ced youth, liberty, and often life, for the dream of a better tomorrow. Born in 1943, Hwang Sok-yong is a Korean writer of world renown and the recipient of numerous international awards and honors. His work, which grapples with the troubled recent history of his divided country, has been the cause of his imprisonment, his exile, and finally that rare achievement of a wide readership and appreciation in both North and South Korea. The Old Garden is, by the author's own admission, his most deeply auto biographical work.

A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author’s experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides. Scenes of battle are breathtakingly well told. The plot is thick with intrigue and complex subplots. But ultimately The Shadow of Arms is a novel of the human condition rather than of the exploits and losses of one side or the other in war.

Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation.
During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from malicious battling between Christian and Communist Koreans. Forty years later, Ryu Yosop, a minister living in America returns to his home village, where his older brother once played a notorious role in the bloodshed. Besieged by vivid memories and visited by the troubled spirits of the deceased, Yosop must face the survivors of the tragedy and lay his brother's soul to rest.
Faulkner-like in its intense interweaving narratives, The Guest is a daring and ambitious novel from a major figure in world literature.