The Old Garden

Written by Hwang Sok-Yong
Translated by Jay Oh

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $18.95

As South Korea violently changed from a military dictatorship to a democratic state, an idealistic activist and a brazen painter shared a brief love affair that would impact the rest of their lives.

Drifting to an old house in the countryside where they once sought refuge, Hyun Woo finds Yoon Hee's... Read more >

The Old Garden

Written by Hwang Sok-Yong
Translated by Jay Oh

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $30.00

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... Read more >

The Old Garden

Written by Hwang Sok-Yong
Translated by Jay Oh

Format: eBook, 544 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $18.95

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