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Mater 2-10 | Hwang Sok-Yong
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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 2-10vividly 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 people.
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"Where'd the company vanish to after laying everyone off? The Philippines. They went looking for a country with cheaper, more-docile workers with even less power than us, and moved their entire operation over there. They just started, and already dozens of Filipino workers have been injured or killed.'

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charl08
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Dry inside with my book.

...the notebook also included a chronological collection of Korean newspaper clippings dating back to 1925.....over the next five years.... a total of 12-30,000 Koreans took part in hundreds of labour and agrarian disputes all over the country...clashing nearly 500 times early on and then about 100 times per year...

Over here in Yeongdeungpo, life had gone on as usual, while over there a fire had been raging.