The Gwangju Uprising was a bloody stepping stone on the struggling path toward democracy for South Korea. While the true number of casualties was forever occluded from history, the fictional death of a middle-school boy [...]
A near-dead person has the alleged ability to review the entirety of his life as he advances toward that blinding tunnel of light. This novel was the jumbled life assessment of somebody suffered from severe PTSD [...]
I could not handle the intense viscero-somatic reaction elicited from this harrowingly depressing novel. All suffering was blown up to a cosmic proportion, everything on a brighter side was permanently tainted [...]
A Vietnamese poet once wrote that "Life is beautiful only when love is unfinished." The love story in this book was beautifully unfinished in the sense that it never ended. [...]
