Yi Mun-Yol

• Jan-1996
• / General Fiction
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When the King's governor, after falling into rebel hands and changing sides, is recaptured by the royal troops, not only is he executed but his son and grandsons are, by family tie, condemned to death as traitors. The little grandsons are quickly sen...

• Feb-2001
• / General Fiction
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When the twelve-year-old narrator of Our Twisted Hero moves to a small town and enrolls in the local school, he's confident that his big city sophistication will establish him as a natural leader. He is shocked to find his new classmates and teacher ...

• Dec-2015
• / General Fiction
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One of the greatest living Korean writers here details the quest of a young seminary student seeking transcendence, running through many Western and East Asian theologies in the process. Deciding that Jesus was not truly "the son of man," the student...

• Mar-2017
• / Literary
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Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a middle-aged South Korean professor, also named Yi, whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North at the outbreak of the Korean War. Many years later, despite having spent most of his...