City of Ash and Red by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell [in Booklist]
17 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation
The first collaboration between Hye-Young Pyun and translator Sora Kim-Russell, The Hole (2017), introduced one of Korea’s most lauded writers to Anglophone readers. Kim-Russell’s ability to replicate Pyun’s stifling terror repeats here as he presents a nameless anti-hero, known only as “the man.” Leaving behind envious...