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 21 years.
 
Suddenly he receives a mysterious email, a directive seemingly from the home office. He has one day to return to headquarters, but he hasn’t heard from anyone in over 10 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.

Your Republic Is Calling You
written by Young-ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim

• Publication Date: September 28, 2010
• Genres: Fiction, Spy Fiction
• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• ISBN-10: 0151015457
• ISBN-13: 9780151015450