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Meeting with My Brother

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Title Sub
A Novella
Author
Mun-yol Yi
Co-Author
-
Translator
Heinz Insu Fenkl,Yoosup Chang
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published Year
2017
Country
UNITED STATES (New York)
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century

Original Title
아우와의 만남
Romanization of Original
Auwaui mannam
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9780231544672
Page
-
Series
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About the Author

  • Yi Mun-yol
  • Birth : 1948 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Mun-yol
  • Family Name : Yi
  • Korean Name : 이문열
  • ISNI : 0000000081755894
  • Works : 91
About the Original Work
  • 아우와의 만남
  • Author : Yi Mun-yol
  • Published Year : 1994
  • English Title : An Appointment with My Brother
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a middle-aged South Korean professor, also named Yi, whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North at the outbreak of the Korean War. Many years later, despite having spent most of his life under a cloud of suspicion as the son of a traitor, Yi is prepared to reunite with his father. Yet before a rendezvous on the Chinese border can be arranged, his father dies. Yi then learns for the first time that he has a half-brother, whom he chooses to meet instead. As the two confront their shared legacy, their encounter takes a surprising turn.

Meeting with My Brother represents the political and psychological complexity of Koreans on both sides of the border, offering a complex yet poignant perspective on the divisions between the two countries. Through a series of charged conversations, Yi explores the nuances of reunification, both political and personal. This semiautobiographical account draws on Yi's own experience of growing up with an absent father who defected to the North and the stigma of family disloyalty. First published in Korea in 1994, Meeting with My Brother is a moving and illuminating portrait of the relationships sundered by one of the world's starkest barriers.

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Translated Books4 See More

  • Arabic(اللغة العربية) Book
    موعد مع أخي
    يي مون يول / 이문열 / 2008 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century
  • Arabic(اللغة العربية) Book
    موعد مع أخي
    يي مون يول / 이문열 / 2016 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century
  • English(English) Book
    Meeting with My Brother
    Yi Mun-Yol / 이문열 / 2017 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century
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