Oct 20, 2006 - Bible tells us that we are descendants of Cain, as much as of Noah. Cain's descendant's. Cain had a son, Enoch, and built a city in his honor. Cain's descendants - Cain knew his wife intimately. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain built a city and named the city after his son.
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Hwang Sun-won is one of the most beloved and respected Korean writers of the twentieth century. This extraordinary novel is based on his own experience in his North Korean village at a historic turning point for modern Korea between the end of World War II (and with it the end of the 35-year Japanese occupation of Korea) and the eve of the Korean War just when Korea had be...more
Published September 30th 1997 by Routledge (first published 1954)
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Nov 08, 2013Zöe Yu rated it liked it
I liked this book, read it within one week, but the way the author named all his characters in the book is so different from my understand of Korean names from my Korean friends, so it is a bit confusing for the names, only the main character Hun and the girl I remember.
The title, I think tries to say something about being brothers but killing each other. But I thought that's what we Asians like to do. Haha.
The story is not so attracting. In the beginning it was interesting to read a different...more
The title, I think tries to say something about being brothers but killing each other. But I thought that's what we Asians like to do. Haha.
The story is not so attracting. In the beginning it was interesting to read a different...more
Mar 31, 2008Ryan rated it really liked it
This was a very interesting book for me to read, both because of my lack of experience with Korean literature in general, as well as my lack of knowledge about this period in Korean history (the time immediately following the Communist revolution in North Korea). It was an extremely interesting novel, because it focuses on a very singular act - murder in a small town - but at the same time, it's completely without a protagonist. I don't mean this just in the 'it features an ensemble cast' sort o...more
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Hwang Sun-wŏn was a Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.
Hwang Sun-wŏn was a Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.