This 198-page quasi non-fiction book is comprised of seven unnumbered but titled chapters ranging from 17seventeen to thirty-seven pages. He leaves it up to the reader to evaluate Lost Names as whatever they would like it to be since, he writes, it was written for them. Kim claims autobiography is neither pure non-fiction nor is pure fiction.
Although the work is not strictly autobiographical, according to the author, most readers accept "that the young boy, the first-person narrator, is the author himself." Kim wrote a series of seven fictional tales about a Korean boy perceived and classified ironically as a non-fictional account of his life. Kim was born in 1932 and grew up in Korea as a boy like the one in Lost Names. citizen who attended several American universities from 1955 to 1963. Kim entered the United States in 1955, after he served from 1950-1954 in the Republic of Korea Marines and Army. Kim, the author of Lost Names, was born in Hamheung, North Korea. The simple straightforward language of Lost Names makes the work easily understood and presents a reality appreciated even beyond the tragic environment of a world at war. The reader is immediately drawn into the family circle where he or she grows sympathetic to the boy and his nuclear and extended family. This quasi-historical non-fictional novel, published in 1970, occurs between 19 and presents the growth and development of a thirteen year-old boy through his eyes.
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