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is a novel by
Ryū Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist, and filmmaker. His novels explore human nature through themes of disillusionment, drug use, surrealism, murder, and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan. His best known novels are ''Al ...
, first published in Japanese in 2005 and translated into English in 2013 by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf, and Ginny Tapley. The novel depicts an
alternate history Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, altern ...
in which
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
invades and then occupies the Japanese island of
Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surroun ...
in 2011. Murakami states that he spent 3 years researching the novel, including interviewing 20 refugees from North Korea.


Awards

''From the Fatherland With Love'' was awarded the 59th
Mainichi Publishing Culture Award is an annual award given to distinguished literary works and activities in the sectors literature and art, humanities and social science, natural science, and encyclopedic work, plus a special award. It was founded in 1947 and is sponsored by the M ...
and the 58th Noma Literary Prize in 2005.


Reception

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described it as "impressive".


See also

* Invasion literature * Red Dawn


References

2005 Japanese novels Japanese historical novels Japanese alternate history novels Political novels Novels by Ryū Murakami Novels set in the 2010s Fiction set in 2011 {{2000s-ah-novel-stub