Meeting with my brother: a novella

Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is a sobering yet hopeful depiction of the volatile relationship between the divided Koreas.

Yi, the narrator, is a South Korean university professor searching for his father, who defected to the North at the outbreak of war.

Instead he finds his half-brother, and their tense meeting takes a surprising turn.

This semi-autobiographical account upends the West's assumptions about North Korean life.