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First Kyu - The Novel
Keywords: Culture & History
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 Blood Vomiting Game. 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 Does anybody know someplace where you can buy this book? Amazon and ABEbooks don't have it, and neither do any of the top Google matches.
It seems that they sell it at Hardy (Australia) - 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. |