{"product_id":"meeting-with-my-brother-9780231178655","title":"Meeting with My Brother","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYi Mun-yol's \u003ci\u003eMeeting with My Brother\u003c\/i\u003e is narrated by a South Korean whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North during the Korean War. Many years later, he is prepared to reunite with his father. When his father dies before a rendezvous can be arranged, he learns that he has a half-brother, whom he chooses to meet instead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA seminal and timeless work. . . . What ultimately makes \u003ci\u003eMeeting with My  Brother\u003c\/i\u003e so fascinating is Yi’s subtle understanding of estrangement,  abandonment, and the attendant feelings of suspicion that so often come  up against the powerful call of blood and kinship. In Yi’s fictional  encounter, we feel the repressed grief of a nation torn in two, and the  daily lives of those who must carry the legacy of such a divorce as they  circle each other, wondering and yearning for a chance at intimacy. -- Min Jin Lee * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eYi’s exploration of identity, family, citizenship, and nationhood is urgently profound and deeply compelling. * Booklist (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eYi Mun-yol is one of South Korea's most gifted writers, and this translation gives his simple style all of the elegant force it can bring to bear. This story of two brothers who find each other only after their defector father has died balances the weight of the country's history on their meeting as effortlessly as only a master could achieve. Compelling and essential reading. -- Alexander Chee, author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Queen of the Night \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEdinburgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI've always wondered why more Korean literature in translation isn't available in the United States. Heinz Insu Fenkl's stylish translation of beloved Korean author Yi Mun-yol's complexly layered novella might change that. \u003ci\u003eMeeting with My Brother\u003c\/i\u003e trenchantly explores the ruptures of Korea's partition and hopes of reunification. -- Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of the novel \u003ci\u003eSomebody's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA haunting, powerful story about a divided family and country by one of South Korea's most important writers. -- Krys Lee, author of the novel \u003ci\u003eHow I Became a North Korean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeeting with My Brother\u003c\/i\u003e is renowned writer Yi Mun-yol's fictional account of the different politics and desires coalescing along the Chinese side of the North Korean border, where people are both dreading and ardently wishing for national reunification between the two Koreas. The reunion of two brothers in Yi's story is deeply moving. Yi refuses to romanticize blood ties or to take recourse to melodrama. Instead, nuance and sensitivity color this story, which should be read by all those interested in a possible reunification. -- Janet Poole, translator of \u003ci\u003eEastern Sentiments \u003c\/i\u003eby T'aejun Yi\u003cbr\u003eA modest but quietly controversial look at two very different Koreas, questioning long-held orthodoxies.... Yi's novella complicates our understanding of relations between North and South. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003ePrefaced by an illuminating introduction by professor and translator Heinz Insu Fenkl in which he provides a literary and personal background to Korean author Yi Mun-Yol and Korean literature in general. . . . \u003ci\u003eMeeting with My Brother\u003c\/i\u003e, at just 90 taut pages, is well worth reading for its own sake. -- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eFreshly presented to a new generation, \u003ci\u003eMeeting with My Brother\u003c\/i\u003e makes for required reading. -- Lucy Scholes * Korean Literature Now *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeeting with my Brother\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful novella, somehow managing to summarise the issues behind the nation’s division in less than a hundred pages. . . . \u003ci\u003eMeeting with my Brother\u003c\/i\u003e, quite apart from its political significance, is simply a beautiful, touching story, and it builds to the two brothers setting their differences aside to remember their father. * Tony's Reading List *\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in Korean in 1994, \u003ci\u003eMeeting with My Brother\u003c\/i\u003e is still as relevant in 2017. Importantly, this book gives you what headlines and political machismo can’t – a sense of what’s at stake for individuals, and why it all matters. * Words and Leaves *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeeting with My Brother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400308859223,"sku":"9780231178655","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/meeting-with-my-brother-9780231178655","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}