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Meeting with My Brother: A Novella
By Yi Mun-yol
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Yi Mun-yol’s Meeting with My Brother is a sobering yet hopeful depiction of the volatile relationship between the divided Koreas. Yi, the narrator, is a South Korean university professor searching for his father, who defected to the North at the outbreak of war. Instead he finds his half-brother, and their tense meeting takes a surprising turn. This semi-autobiographical account upends the West’s assumptions about North Korean life.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After the Korean War, Yi’s father had deserted his family in South Korea and defected to the North. Now, years later, as the two countries contemplate reunification, Yi has learned not only of his father’s death but that he had another family in North Korea. He decides to meet his half-brother. At first, the meeting seems unlikely to accomplish anything because of shared distrust but, slowly, as the two trade stories of their lives, interestingly often mirroring each other, they begin to realize that although there are clearly differences, perhaps much of what they thought they knew or were taught about each other was not the whole truth.Meeting with My Brother was written by South Korean author Yi Mun-Yol in 1994 and translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl with Yoosap Chang. The novella is both a semiautobiographical account of Yi’s own life – his father defected to the North after the war - and an examination of the differences and similarities between the two nations and the effects that reunification might have on both sides. Today, as the US and N Korea seem to be facing off in a deadly game of chicken, this book gives a fascinating, and surprisingly nuanced and sympathetic view of North Korea questioning many of the stereotypes of both the North and the South. Meeting with MY Brother is short and the pacing is slow but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a very interesting read. Not only did I enjoy it but of all the books I have read this year, it may be the most important. It has made me question most of what I though I knew about North Korea and, in his nuanced portrayal of a country painted black by the western press, it provides hope that a peaceful solution to the rising conflict can be reached. I cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone who is interested to see a different view of Korea than that portrayed in western media. Thanks to Netgalley and Columbia University Press for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review