A review by paulataua
I Hear Your Voice by Young-Ha Kim

3.0

I love Asian literature. While not drifting into magical realism, it so often contains ‘ghosts’ or things that lie outside the boundaries of science, and this is the case with ‘I Hear your Voice’. The story of Jae and Dongyu might have been titled ‘Motorcycle Gangs meet the Messianic’, or ‘Bikers and the Buddha’. What starts as a story of two orphans growing up together in Seoul suddenly takes on a more spiritual cult like nature. I ‘m not saying I really loved it. It has its weaknesses, especially the last part that takes part four years later and is narrated by a writer trying to write about the events, but it was interesting enough to keep my attention throughout.