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First Kyu - The Novel
First Kyu: A Novel, copyright 1999 by Dr. Sung-Hwa Hong The back cover says this is "a compelling, insightful and haunting tale of love, sacrifice, the search for excellence, and go -- the world's oldest game." I think that's pretty accurate. This novel is lots of bittersweet fun for go players. It follows a teen player as he comes of age pursuing a professional go career. As an occidental, I was fascinated by the scenes of Asian "go culture" (including bangneki gambling -- now I understand what those guys at the Korean go club were doing :-) and the backdrop of 1960s Korean society. Though the story is well-written and very entertaining in its own right, go players will appreciate some bonuses. Part 1 includes the kifu of the famous BloodVomitingGame. In Part 2, most of the chapters are titled after go proverbs; several include go diagrams that seem to illustrate the proverbs.
Interestingly, based on a started by TakeNGive This is a copy of the living page "First Kyu - The Novel" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |