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不做告别

Han Kang

4.1 AVERAGE

keurimjanee's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

effpol's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Gorgeous, moving, painful—all the best things. I loved the tentatively hopeful ambiguity of the ending.

mulrine's review against another edition

4.25

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mordygo's review against another edition

4.75

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix

bjwing's review against another edition

4.75

dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This is kind of the opposite of her other book The Vegetarian; once I started it, I had to read the entire thing in one sitting. This was so slowly contemplative it let my mind wander a lot, and I’d have to put it down and come back to it later. There is a lot of description of snow slowly falling, and that’s about the pace the book takes. It definitely created an appropriate atmosphere for a ghost story of sorts. Sort of a horrifying time to be reminded how easily a government will just exterminate 200,000 people to clean up political dissent.