Friend
Friend Paek Nam-nyong's Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader…
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Friend
Paek Nam-nyong's Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader consideration of love and marriage. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce.
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. The novel delves into its protagonists' past, describing how the couple first fell in love and then how their marriage deteriorated over the years. Far from being a propagandistic screed in praise of the Great Leader, Friend describes the lives of people who struggle
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