Two AMAZING new Korean novels

the whole book is poignant and beautiful it really has you thinking about language and what it does for us and the ways in which we use it and the ways in which we use it without even thinking

then I like many other people read human acts which is set during the Korean War and is a really harrowing book

everyone read it everyone loved it rightly so it was the first Korean novel I ever read

I loved that book because it seemed to transcend fiction and narratives in a really satisfying way it's full of photographs the White Pages themselves are thematically part of the book The White book is experimental but it doesn't come across as obnoxious or pretentious at all and I was really impressed by that

it's painful but satisfying and funny and I think the fact that there is humor and a lot of gross killing and eating I think that helps alleviate some of the Thematic weight and pressure that this book puts on you I loved it to bits though I really did