Meeting with My Brother
โ Scribed by Yi Mun-yol
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0231178654
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โฆ Synopsis
Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is a sobering yet hopeful depiction of the volatile relationship between the divided Koreas. Yi, the narrator, is a South Korean university professor searching for his father, who defected to the North at the outbreak of war. Instead he finds his half-brother, and their tense meeting takes a surprising turn. This semi-autobiographical account upends the West's assumptions about North Korean life.
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