“Friend: A Novel from North Korea”: Book Talk with Translator Immanuel Kim and Novelist Patricia Park

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Join translator Immanuel Kim and novelist Patricia Park for at P&P Live for a conversation about this groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea’s most popular writers. A best-seller in North Korea, where Paek continues to live and write, Friend by Paek Nam-nyong illuminates a side of life in the DPRK that Western readers have never before encountered.

The Guardian writes that Friend is a “tender, witty novel.. [that] sharpens our ability to see the fragility and messy humanity in lives too often obscured by state agendas.” The New York Times calls Friend a “candid examination of domestic conflict and female ambition, [that] unsettles expectations of North Korean life.”