Friend

Paek Nam-nyong¿s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. This groundbreaking translation of one of North Koreäs most popular writers offers English-language readers a page-turner full of psychological tension as well as a revealing portrait of a society that is typically seen as closed to the outside world.

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Friend
Afterword

About the author

Paek Nam-nyong is one of the most renowned writers in North Korea today. He was born in 1949 in Hamhŭng and worked in a steel factory for many years before enrolling at Kim Il Sung University. He worked in the Writer’s Union and later joined the elite group of writers called April 15th Literary Production Unit.

Immanuel Kim is Korea Foundation and Kim-Renaud Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture Studies at George Washington University. He is the author of Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction (2018).

Summary

Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. This groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea’s most popular writers offers English-language readers a page-turner full of psychological tension as well as a revealing portrait of a society that is typically seen as closed to the outside world.

Additional text

Paek Nam-nyong reminds us that the local and interpersonal elements of our lives are just as real as the ideological and political, and certainly tell more about what it means to be human.

Product details

• Authors: Paek Nam-Nyong, Nam-nyong Paek
• Assisted by: Immanuel Kim (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780231195607
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19560-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia; Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary