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Can I read Meeting with My Brother: A Novella (Weatherhead Books on Asia) on EtoBox?
Meeting with My Brother: A Novella (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Yi Mun-yol is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Meeting with My Brother: A Novella (Weatherhead Books on Asia) about?
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.
Who reads Meeting with My Brother: A Novella (Weatherhead Books on Asia)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Yi Mun-yol
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231178648
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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