Fiction | Non-fiction
More than a third of the year 2025 has elapsed and in The Book Review we have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then these are.
We suspect that some of them (although certainly not all) will occupy a prominent place when we publish our lists of the best of the year. For more suggestions on what to read, visit our Book Recommendations Page.
Fiction
A disturbing story written by a Nobel Prize
period of Kang
The new novel by the Nobel Prize winner of Literature, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, reviews a violent chapter of the history of South Korea: between 1947 and 1954, in Jeju, an island located in front of the South Korean coast, at least 30,000 people were killed in perpetrated atrocities, mostly by the government. This book, disturbing and dreamlike, focuses on a writer who travels to Jeju during a snowstorm to rescue the bird that is her friend’s pet, once there the protagonist discovers the depths of her friend’s obsession with the massacre. Read our review [en inglés].
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