Your Republic Is Calling You

Your Republic Is Calling You
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9780547546971
ISBN-13 : 0547546971
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Book Synopsis Your Republic Is Calling You by : Young-ha Kim

Download or read book Your Republic Is Calling You written by Young-ha Kim and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This psychological thriller of a North Korean spy living in Seoul is “perhaps the most intriguing and accomplished Korean fiction yet to appear in English” (Kirkus). Foreign film importer Kim Ki-Yong is a family man with a wife and daughter. Living a prosperous life in Seoul, South Korea, he’s an aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi. But he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Then, after more than a decade of silence from the home office, he receives a mysterious email stating that he has one day to return to headquarters. But is the message really from Pyongyang—or has he been discovered? And if the message is real, is he being called home to receive new orders or to be executed for a lack of diligence? 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 1980s, author Young-ha Kim confronts moral questions on small and large scales. “This intense novel’s bristling plot—confined to the events of a single day—ironically echoes that of Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses.”—Kirkus


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