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Author Kim, Hyun Sook, author.

Title Banned book club / Kim Hyun Sook ; Ryan Estrada ; Ko Hyung-Ju.

Publication Info. [Chicago, IL] : Iron Circus Comics, 2020.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Graphic Novel  GN 378.1 Kim    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Young Adult Graphic Novel  YA 741.5 Kim    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description 192 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined. This was during South Korea's Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protestors. In this charged political climate, with Molotov cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Scarlet Letter. Instead she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club. And as Hyun Sook soon discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence as the walls close in.
Audience Ages 14-17.
Grades 9-12.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject Kim, Hyun Sook -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Kim, Hyun Sook -- Biography.
Kim, Hyun Sook -- Biography.
Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- Korea (South) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Prohibited books -- Korea (South) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Student protesters -- Korea (South) -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Women college students -- Korea (South) -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- Korea (South).
Graphic novels.
Prohibited books -- Korea (South).
Student protesters -- Korea (South) -- Biography.
Women college students -- Korea (South) -- Biography.
Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- Korea (South).
Graphic novels.
Prohibited books -- Korea (South).
Student protesters -- Korea (South) -- Biography.
Women college students -- Korea (South) -- Biography.
Korea (South) -- History -- 1960-1988 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Korea (South) -- History -- 1960-1988.
Korea (South) -- History -- 1960-1988.
Added Author Ko, Hyung-Ju, artist.
Estrada, Ryan, author.
ISBN 9781945820427 (pbk.)

 
    
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