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Title: How Long, O Lord: Stories of Twentieth Century Korea by George E. Ogle, George Ewing Ogle ISBN: 1-4010-5351-3 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Faith in Action: Well-written, realistic fiction of Korea
Comment: George E. Ogle has lived in Korea, has written scholarly books on Koreans, and was deported from the country by Park Chung Hee's government. The deportation occurred in 1974, when Ogle dared to speak up for a group of innocent men that Park's regime had framed as Communist revolutionaries, men who were eventually executed. Ogle's recollection of his deportation and his reflection on other tumultuous events of twetntieth-century Korea constitute the basis of this book. The book's short stories are beautifully written, and are sensitive yet realistic. They betray no maudlin confessionalism; rather, they bear witness to human ability to trust, hope, and love in the most desperate of circumstances.

Rating: 3
Summary: I'm glad this is fiction
Comment: If one read this book without first reading the foreward and preface,it may not be evident these accounts as presented are fictional. Rev. Ogle very openly states his ideology in these writings. Most references to the "military dictatorship" of South Korea are accompanied with descriptions of evil, wicked, despicable horrors perpetrated upon certain of the "innocent" population. On the other hand the North Korean regime may be addressed as only bad or mean. He does attempt to interweave Christian positions on social justice into these stories, however, with the obvious direction of pro-North Korean sympathies. The most positive portion comes at the very end, with hints of reunification based upon the works of the Church.