At Dusk won Hwang Sok-yong the Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature
At Dusk Synopsis:
In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point.
Park Minwoo is, by every measure, a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighbourhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in a rapidly modernising society. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work and ambition have brought him triumph and satisfaction. But when his company is investigated for corruption, he’s forced to reconsider his role in the transformation of his country.
At the same time, he receives an unexpected message from an old friend, Cha Soona, a woman that he had once loved, and then betrayed. As memories return unbidden, Minwoo recalls a world he thought had been left behind — a world he now understands that he has helped to destroy.
From one of Korea's most renowned and respected authors, At Dusk is a gentle yet urgent tale about the things, and the people, that we give up in our never-ending quest to move forward.
Translated by Sora Kim-Russell
(Scribe Publications, October 2018)
BOOK REVIEW
I greatly admired the artistry and power of Hwang Yok-song's Familiar Things (trans. 2017) so was keen to read the next work of his that Scribe Publications have released in English.
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