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Author Yi, Mun-yŏl, 1948- author.

Title Meeting with my brother : a novella / Yi Mun-yol ; translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl with Yoosup Chang
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 92 pages)
Series Weatherhead books on Asia
Weatherhead books on Asia.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Meeting with My Brother
Summary "Narrated in the first person, Meeting with My Brother tells the story of a professor's journey to meet with his younger half-brother from North Korea. The professor's father had left his family behind in the South during the Korean War and eventually had another family in the North. The story includes the professor's negotiations with the go-between who arranges the meeting, his participation in a tour group (the necessary excuse to travel to the area in China where the meeting takes place), his interaction with other tour members and Koreans living in the area, and finally his meeting with his brother. The story includes different positions on reunification and illuminates many of the reasons that make reunification difficult. In this new translation the author has added a new vignette that does not appear in the original."
Notes Translated from the Korean
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2022)
Subject Brothers -- Korea (North) -- Fiction
Families -- Korea (North) -- Fiction
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Fiction
FICTION -- Literary.
Brothers
Families
Korea (North)
Genre/Form Fiction
War stories.
Fiction.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
Author Fenkl, Heinz Insu, 1960- translator.
Chang, Yoosup, translator.
LC no. 2017005104
ISBN 9780231544672
0231544677
Other Titles Au waŭi mannam. English