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wenda 's review for:
Diary of a Murderer: And Other Stories
by Young-Ha Kim
What on earth happened here... It's been a good long while since I have been this surprised by an ending, and then twice in one collection of four short stories. It only took me a few hours to finish them, I barely looked up, they were so riveting. And rather disturbing.
Kim Young-Ha is a very powerful writer, and Krys Lee is a very talented translator. The fast, clipped writing was so elegant and easy to read, it's hard to put into words what skill must lie behind these innocuous looking pages.
The twists and turns in each story will keep you on your toes, not in the least in the titular story about a serial killer who has been 'retired' for twenty-five years, and is now suffering from losing his memories and his control to Alzheimer's. Awkwardly, you start to empathize with him as he tries to protect his daughter Eunhui and will by the end feel deeply for him despite his deeds.
However outlandish the storylines - though never unbelievable - the characters behave very realistically which causes so many conflicting emotions. It made me think about them long after I finished reading, made them come alive more than you'd expect after so few pages per story.
I'm hoping to find more books by the same author, that's for sure. Ready to get my mind blown again.
Kim Young-Ha is a very powerful writer, and Krys Lee is a very talented translator. The fast, clipped writing was so elegant and easy to read, it's hard to put into words what skill must lie behind these innocuous looking pages.
The twists and turns in each story will keep you on your toes, not in the least in the titular story about a serial killer who has been 'retired' for twenty-five years, and is now suffering from losing his memories and his control to Alzheimer's. Awkwardly, you start to empathize with him as he tries to protect his daughter Eunhui and will by the end feel deeply for him despite his deeds.
However outlandish the storylines - though never unbelievable - the characters behave very realistically which causes so many conflicting emotions. It made me think about them long after I finished reading, made them come alive more than you'd expect after so few pages per story.
I'm hoping to find more books by the same author, that's for sure. Ready to get my mind blown again.