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Your Republic Is Calling You
Young-ha Kim
Mariner Books
October 2010
On Sale: September 28, 2010
336 pages
ISBN: 0151015457
EAN: 9780151015450
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A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a
wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and
sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living
among his enemies for twenty-one years.
Suddenly he receives a mysterious email, a directive
seemingly from the home office. He has one day to return to
headquarters. He hasn’t heard from anyone in over ten years.
Why is he being called back now? Is this message really from
Pyongyang? Is he returning to receive new orders or to be
executed for a lack of diligence? Has someone in the South
discovered his secret identity? Is this a trap? 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 since the
1980s. A lament for the fate of a certain kind of man and a
certain kind of manhood, it is ultimately a searing study of
the long and insidious effects of dividing a nation in two.
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