“Friend”: Paek Nam Nyong and the long search for a decent North Korean novel

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“Friend”: Paek Nam Nyong and the long search for a decent North Korean novel

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Article: https://www.nknews.org/2020/03/friend-paek-nam-nyong-and-the-long-search-for-a-decent-north-korean-novel/
Journal: NKnews
Issued Date: March 25, 2020
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
City: -
Book: Friend
Writer: Baek Namyong
Translator: Immanuel Kim

About the Author

Baek Namyong
Birth : - ~ Unknown
Occupation : Writer
First Name : Namyong
Family Name : Baek
Korean Name : 백남룡
ISNI : 000000002732775X
Works : 2

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English(English)

“Friend” by Paek Nam Nyong and translated by Immanuel Kim is out in May. You can pre-order it here. A good book is a precious thing in North Korea. In a society where propaganda is omnipresent in every other form of media, books offer their readers a form of escape between the lines, an oblique hinterland of interpretation that the regime might shape, but cannot truly define. They are also one of the only forms of entertainment untethered to the country’s unreliable electricity grid.

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