Encounter

This historical novel, Encounter (Mannam), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia''s most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Because of Tasan''s fascination with Western learning, then synonymous with Catholicism, he is exiled t...