A review by lucieloureads
At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong

5.0

In Korea, an architect who grew up in a slum without wealth or connections, created a successful career for himself through singleminded determination to never go back. In his sixties and surrounded by friends and colleagues dying and being caught in fraud scandales, he is suddenly and unexpectantly confronted with his past when a woman he grew up with asks him to call.

Incredibly interesting reflection on architecture and how it can erase history and the communities of the past, while asp containing a gripping story of individual struggling to survive under the current political and economic structure.