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Unbroken Spirits: Nineteen Years in South Korea's Gulag de Suh Sung

Unbroken Spirits: Nineteen Years in South Korea's Gulag: Asian Voices

Autor Suh Sung Traducere de Jean Inglis Cuvânt înainte de James Palais
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iul 2001
This is the remarkable and wrenching memoir of a South Korean dissident who was unjustly accused of spying for the North Koreans and jailed for nineteen years as a political prisoner. The updated English-language edition traces Suh Sung's experiences as a Korean citizen of Japan before his incarceration, his time in prison, and his subsequent release. Readers will be moved and awed by Suh's courage under torture and solitary confinement. This memoir is an invaluable document for all concerned about human rights and a moving testimony to one man's incredible determination.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780742501225
ISBN-10: 0742501221
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 147 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:0240
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Seria Asian Voices

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Author's Preface to the English Edition
Chapter 3 Translator's Note
Chapter 4 Chronology
Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 6 Frame-up
Chapter 7 Trial
Chapter 8 Prison Life-The 1970s
Chapter 9 My Comrades-The Unconverted Prisoners
Chapter 10 The Struggle against the System of Ideological Conversion
Chapter 11 Mourning
Chapter 12 The 1980s
Chapter 13 Freedom

Recenzii

A phenomenal best-seller in Japan, Suh Sung's memoir is at once a painstaking and painful description of prison life in South Korea during Park Chung Hee's dictatorial rule, and a memorable and moving testimony to the resiliency of the human spirit. Unbroken Spirits instructs, instigates, and inspires. I recommend it heartily.
Unbroken Spirits-Suh's pain-filled autobiography about his life in South Korea from 1971 to 1990, as a victim of abduction, torture and imprisonment from the age of 26 through to 45-documents a sordid yet important chapter in Korean history and tells an intriguing personal story.
In a well-translated, informative and sometimes moving account, Suh Sung tells of his nineteen-year detention in South Korea's prisons. . . . Despite its grim subject, the book has a warm, human heart, reflecting the endurance of its author. . . . Very readable and highly recommended.
. . . A well-translated, informative and sometimes moving account . . . Despite its grim subject, the book has a warm, human heart, reflecting the endurance of its author. Along the way we learn interesting facts about Japanese discrimination against their Korean population in the post-war years, and we learn that Oh Dae-su's wall-punching exercises in Oldboy were not a perverse invention of Park Chan-wook: this is, or was, a fist-toughening practice widespread in Korea's prisons. Very readable and highly recommended.
An extremely important account of the mood of injustice that prevailed in South Korea during the period of near-dictatorship in South Korea that lasted from 1948 to 1987. The experience of Suh Sung was one of the most egregious examples of injustice in that period. His story should be made known to the world.