Banned Book Club

Kim Hyun Sook's graphic memoir follows her journey as a student in South Korea during the Fifth Republic, a period of intense censorship and political repression. When she joins an underground reading group to discuss banned Western classics, she and her fellow students risk imprisonment and violence to keep the books circulating. Told through Kim's own drawings and narration, the story captures the tension of a student activist caught between intellectual awakening and the threat of state retaliation.