Post by richardvasseur on Oct 28, 2020 14:32:59 GMT
Book title: Banned Book Club
Graphic novel
Writers: Kim Hyun Sook and Ko Hyung-Ju
Artist: Ryan Estrada
Iron Circus Comics
First edition: April 2020
Reviewed by : Allen Klingelhoets
It’s 1983 during South Korea’s Fifth Republic, a military regime that has entrenched its power through censorship, and murder of protestors. In this charged political climate, a freshman named Kim Hyun Sook seeks refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invites her to his reading group, she expects to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet and the Scarlett Letter. Instead, she finds herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of the underground book club. And as Hyun Sook soon discovers, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence.
In Banned Book Club, Hyun Sook shares her dramatic true story of political strife, fear mongering, the death of democratic institutions, and the relentless rebellion of reading.
From back cover.
Allen thoughts:
Quick reading ten-chapter story. It made me appreciate fact in North America have freedom to read Moby Dick, Hamlet and The Scarlett Letter and many other books. 197 pages.
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Allen Klingelhoets