Tags: Heinz Insu Fenkl, Korean Quarterly, Marie Lee The eponymous narrator, Heinz/Insu is a young boy growing up as an Amerasian in Korea in the ‘60s and early ‘70s… Memories of My Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Fenkl should be added to this list. How to wrest an adult meaning from a child’s unformed thoughts? But if the author can pull off such a feat, the rewards are ample, as evidenced by works such as Roddy Doyle’s Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Reidar Jönsson’s My Life as a Dog, and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (which manages to successfully render both a boy’s point of view and his dialect). Setting a novel from a child’s point of view can be as risky a venture as, say, writing a novel in dialect. A Phantom Childhood: Memories of my Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Fenkl
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