{"id":46359,"date":"2020-02-11T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T16:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46359"},"modified":"2020-01-29T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:42:41","slug":"diary-of-a-murderer-and-other-stories-by-young-ha-kim-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/diary-of-a-murderer-and-other-stories-by-young-ha-kim-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of a Murderer and Other Stories by Young-Ha Kim [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45647\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Diary-of-a-Murderer-Young-ha-Kim-BookDragon-531x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Diary-of-a-Murderer-Young-ha-Kim-BookDragon-531x800.jpg 531w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Diary-of-a-Murderer-Young-ha-Kim-BookDragon.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/>Author Young-Ha Kim, translator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kryslee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Krys Lee<\/a> (herself an award-winning writer;\u00a0<em><a class=\"trackclick\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/drifting-house-by-krys-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkt=\"5\">Drifting House<\/a><\/em>), and actor David Shih repeat the triumvirate success of Kim\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/hear-voice-young-ha-kim-translated-krys-lee-booklist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>I Hear Your Voice<\/em><\/a> to deliver his latest\u00a0collection of four chilling, engrossing stories. The eponymous, novella-length \u201cDiary of a Murderer\u201d \u2013 the best of an already arresting quartet \u2013 introduces a septuagenarian serial killer who\u2019s keeping a journal to record whatever his Alzheimer\u2019s doesn\u2019t steal away. He both reveals and obscures, making him supremely unreliable, as he pieces together his unwavering intent to commit his final murder to save his daughter\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cOrigin of Life,\u201d two childhood friends reunite as adults and fall into an affair that (unsurprisingly) engenders fatal violence. In \u201cMissing Child,\u201d parents lose their toddler only to face further harrowing challenges when an unrecognizable boy is returned a decade later. In \u201cThe Writer,\u201d a once-famous author struggling to <s>finish<\/s>\u00a0start his next book is caught in a compromising situation in an NYC Chinatown apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Shih\u2019s sonorous, smoky-voiced performance accentuates the prevalent desperation of untethered characters, further enhancing Kim\u2019s provocative, unnerving narratives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Diary-of-a-Murderer-\/pid=9721673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Booklist<\/em>, January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers:<\/strong> Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Young-Ha Kim, translator Krys Lee (herself an award-winning writer;\u00a0Drifting House), and actor David Shih repeat the triumvirate success of Kim\u2019s\u00a0I Hear Your Voice to deliver his latest\u00a0collection of four chilling, engrossing stories. The eponymous, novella-length \u201cDiary of a Murderer\u201d \u2013 the best of an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,6,37,38,7,66],"tags":[89,6608,6668,7631,59,8379,75,8870,10,11,2274,13,212,39,796],"class_list":["post-46359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-fiction","category-korean","category-korean-american","category-short-stories","category-translation","tag-anthology-collection","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-booklist-online","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-david-shih","tag-death","tag-diary-of-a-murderer-and-other-stories","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-krys-lee","tag-love","tag-murder","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-young-ha-kim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diary of a Murderer and Other Stories by Young-Ha Kim [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/diary-of-a-murderer-and-other-stories-by-young-ha-kim-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Diary of a Murderer and Other Stories by Young-Ha Kim [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Author Young-Ha Kim, translator Krys Lee (herself an award-winning writer;\u00a0Drifting House), and actor David Shih repeat the triumvirate success of Kim\u2019s\u00a0I Hear Your Voice to deliver his latest\u00a0collection of four chilling, engrossing stories. 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