Meeting With My Brother - A Novella

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mun-yol Yi, YI MUN-YOL
• Assisted by: Heinz Fenkl (Translation), Heinz I. Fenkl (Translation), Heinz Insu Fenkl (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2017
• EAN: 9780231178648
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17864-8
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia; Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary