51 reviews for:

I Hear Your Voice

Young-Ha Kim

3.26 AVERAGE

sonorous_ink's review against another edition

3.0

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3.25 STARS

If there is one thing Korean artists, be it film, television, or literature, know how to do—it's in their use of the social milieu of South Korea.I Hear Your Voice is about a young orphan named Jae who starts a motorbike gang with other homeless runaway youth, at least according to the back cover of the book. In reality, I Hear Your Voice is a series of vignettes held together by the characters of Donggyu and Jae, and later, the police officer. It paints a critique of the importance of status and social credit in South Korean society and how this pedestal causes many to slip through the cracks. To have no status nor social credit is undesirable, and once you're undesirable, you're invisible.

ashley_x's review against another edition

4.0

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"Because of him, I was able to discover the infinite, invisible wilderness spinning out from beneath us."

My heart always feels so strange after reading Young-Ha Kim.

lizziet97's review against another edition

3.25

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

tlsoe's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lausbiana's review against another edition

3.0

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no me ha molado la parte de las motocicletas, pero el principio y la mitad me han atrapado por completo

jkived's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lov3srage's review against another edition

4.0

reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kopiandpaste's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

filiparferreira's review against another edition

4.0

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Este livro lembra uma mistura entre a literatura asiática, exemplar na sua contenção, e a literatura sul americana com a sua criatividade exuberante e mágica. Aqui encontramos Jae, rapaz sem abrigo, nascido numa casa de banho de um terminal de autocarros em Seoul e logo roubado, criado por uma mulher trabalhadora mas abandonado na adolescência. Jae, que tem uma sensibilidade extraordinária e é capaz de uma extrema violência, emerge como uma figura messiânica entre os gangs de adolescentes motoqueiros da noite de Seoul. Por outro lado, temos o seu amigo de infância e também sem abrigo Donggiyu, que em criança por um período emudeceu traumatizado pela violência da família, mas que Jae conseguia ler e a certo ponto até traduzir. A ligação que tiveram na infância mantém-nos em contacto na adolescência e até ao princípio da idade adulta, quando a violência ameaça ficar fora de controlo.

boreo's review against another edition

2.0

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2.7