Mater 2–10

This cover caught team member Holly's eye at a bookstore in Seoul, and she recognized Hwang’s name: he is an accomplished South Korean novelist, the second Korean author to be nominated for a Booker prize (for his 2015 novel At Dusk). Hwang’s history is uniquely compelling: he was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1993 for an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote artistic exchange, although he was later pardoned. This multi-generational epic follows the struggles of ordinary Koreans from the Japanese colonial era into the present day.