Meeting with my brother : a novella / Yi Mun-yol ; translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl with Yoosup Chang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yi, Mun-yŏl, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Fenkl, Heinz Insu, 1960- translator.

Chang, Yoosup, translator.

Series:

Weatherhead books on Asia

Standardized Title:

Au waŭi mannam. English

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Brothers--Korea (North)--Fiction.

Brothers.

Families--Korea (North)--Fiction.

Families.

Korean War, 1950-1953--Fiction.

Korean War, 1950-1953.

Korea (North).

Local Subjects:

Korean War, 1950-1953--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

War stories.

Physical Description:

xxi, 92 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

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."

Other Format:

Online version: Yi, Mun-yŏl, 1948- author. Meeting with my brother.

ISBN:

9780231178648

0231178646

9780231178655

0231178654

OCLC:

971248025