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Friend

About the E-Books

Title Sub
A Novel from North Korea
Author
Paek Nam-nyong
Co-Author
-
Translator
Immanuel Kim
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published Year
2020
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
Romanization of Original
beot
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9780231551403
Page
224
Series
OverDrive Read

About the Author

Writer default image
  • Baek Namyong
  • Birth : - ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Namyong
  • Family Name : Baek
  • Korean Name : 백남룡
  • ISNI : 000000002732775X
  • Works : 2
About the Original Work
DLKL
  • Author : Baek Namyong
  • Published Year : 1992
  • English Title : -
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Paek Nam-nyong's Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader consideration of love and marriage. The novel delves into its protagonists' past, describing how the couple first fell in love and then how their marriage deteriorated over the years. It chronicles the toll their acrimony takes on their son and their careers alongside the story of the judge's own marital troubles.
A best-seller in North Korea, where Paek continues to live and write, Friend illuminates a side of life in the DPRK that Western readers have never before encountered. Far from being a propagandistic screed in praise of the Great Leader, Friend describes the lives of people who struggle with everyday problems such as marital woes and workplace conflicts. Instead of socialist-realist stock figures, Paek depicts complex characters who wrestle with universal questions of individual identity, the split between public and private selves, the unpredictability of existence, and the never-ending labor of maintaining a relationship. 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.

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Translated Books2

  • Friend
    English(English) Book
    Friend
    Paek Nam-nyong / 백남룡 / 2020 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
  • Des amis
    French(Français) Book
    Des amis
    Baek nam-ryong / 백남룡 / 2011 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century