Ebook {Epub PDF} Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim

 · YOUR REPUBLIC IS CALLING YOU. by Young-Ha Kim ; translated by Chi-Young Kim ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 28, A spy living a fabricated life as a respectable businessman, husband and father is the embattled protagonist of this ambitious novel from one of Korea’s most admired writers. We quickly learn that Kim Ki-Yong, an importer of foreign films living in Seoul, was in fact born in Author: Young-Ha Kim. Young-Ha Kim’s “Your Republic Is Calling You” was an incredibly fascinating read. Ki-Yong imports movies from other countries. He is moderately successful South Korean businessman and enjoys life for the most part. He met his wife in college where they were both political dissidents/5. Spanning the course of one day, Your Republic Is Calling You is an emotionally taut, psychologically astute, haunting novel that reveals the depth of one particularly gripping family secret and the way in which we sometimes never really know the people we love. Confronting moral questions on small and large scales, it mines the political and cultural transformations that have transformed South Korea /5(76).

Your Republic Is Calling You Young-ha Kim, trans. from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $ paper (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. "Your Republic is Calling You" is taut, engaging, ironic, scathing, brutal and resigned in turns. The last 40 pages are exceptionally tightly written and the screws tighten, page by page, as life and a history of subterranean decisions conspire to strangle the lives of all the "agents" of the story. Spanning the course of a single day, Your Republic Is Calling You delves deep into a gripping family secret to ask whether we ever truly know the people we love. Mining the political and cultural transformations of South Korea since the s, author Young-ha Kim confronts moral questions on small and large scales.

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