A review by kurenzhi
Lemon: A Novel by Kwon Yeo-Sun

3.5

A clever mystery thoroughly committed to its oblique telling. While the solution is obvious, it is very much only present in subtext, which allows for the characters to dance around the traumatizing subject of the murder (and well as

the child abduction incident years later

). This all makes for a compelling kind of fog as all parties struggle to escape the past and exist in the present. Clumsy in some parts, but skillfully translated and worth a look.