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Friend by Paek Nam-nyong review – a bestseller from North Korea
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- May 6, 2020
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Exploring love, marriage and divorce, and later adapted for TV, Friend became a bestseller when it was published in 1988 in North Korea. It is now the first state-sanctioned novel available to English readers. Novels are wildly popular in North Korea, but the translations that reach us tend to be by dissidents or defectors. Paek Nam-nyong, a household name in the DPRK, is neither.
