Nam-Nyong Paek: Friend | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780231195614 | Friend | A Novel from North Korea | Nam-Nyong Paek | Taschenbuch

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Paek Nam-nyong's Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader consideration of love and marriage. The novel delves into its protagonists' past, describing how the couple first fell in love and then how their marriage deteriorated over the years. It chronicles the toll their acrimony takes on their son and their careers alongside the story of the judge's own marital troubles.

A best-seller in North Korea, where Paek continues to live and write, Friend illuminates a side of life in the DPRK that Western readers have never before encountered. Far from being a propagandistic screed in praise of the Great Leader, Friend describes the lives of people who struggle with everyday problems such as marital woes and workplace conflicts. Instead of socialist-realist stock figures, Paek depicts complex characters who wrestle with universal questions of individual identity, the split between public and private selves, the unpredictability of existence, and the never-ending labor of maintaining a relationship. This groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea's most popular writers offers English-language readers a page-turner full of psychological tension as well as a revealing portrait of a society that is typically seen as closed to the outside world.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Weatherhead Books on Asia
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780231195614
ISBN-10:	0231195613
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Paek, Nam-Nyong
Übersetzung:	Kim, Immanuel
Hersteller:	Columbia University Press Weatherhead Books on Asia
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 141 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Nam-Nyong Paek
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.05.2020
Gewicht:	0,295 kg