South Korea
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Engaging and insightful If I Had Your Face is a solid debut novel from a promising writer.If I Had Your Face follows four young women trying to navigate everyday life in contemporary Seoul. They live in the same building but to begin with are not exactly friends. We have Ara, a mute hair stylist who […]
MoreAlmond by Won-pyung Sohn
Written in a simple and crisp prose Almond is a slim novel that is primarily concerned with empathy and human connection. Yunjae, the narrator of this story, was born with underdeveloped amygdalae, which are two-almond shaped nuclei that process our emotional responses (prior this book I had no idea of what they were…). Because of […]
MoreThe Law of Lines by Hye-Young Pyun — book review
“The future was a dark corridor. And though she would grope her way through it, the door at the end would be locked tight.” After reading that Hye-Young Pyun’s novel The Hole won the ‘Shirley Jackson Award’, I was intrigued to read her work. Thanks to NetGalley I was able to read The Law of […]
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