제주도우다

A saga in three volumes told by An Chang-se, a survivor of the Jeju April Third events, to a younger generation. It runs from 1943, when Japan's grip in the Pacific War was tightest, to the winter of 1948, when the uprising was crushed, and is set mostly in Jocheon, a coastal village nicknamed a rebel's home for standing up to mainland rulers. While Chang-se grows from eleven to sixteen, the villagers resist Japanese exploitation and then, after liberation, the push for a separate southern state and the US military government. The young people of the liberation years, caught between many ideas but burning for a free new country, are driven by torture and killing to take to the mountains, alongside fishermen, women divers and herders.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, War, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea, 1943–1948

First published

2023 by Changbi

Author's age

82 when first published

ISBN

9788936439194 (original)