A review by winterbee
Saha by Cho Nam-Joo
This was not what it says it would be.
(Granted that may not be the author‘s fault but the publisher‘s.)
This book doesn‘t really have a plot. It‘s more of an array of portraits or vignettes of the people living in Saha. It‘s clearly a critique of current society and events and throws the injustice of class into the spotlight. It wasn‘t uninteresting. However it was difficult to get into in the beginning. That may be because a) the plot was thin and b) the story jumps back and forth in time and it wasn‘t always clear what happened when. Also because the plot was so non-existant, it was a bit difficult to keep people‘s stories together. More vignettes of people‘s lives that are by themselves intriguing and well put together than one big story.
(Granted that may not be the author‘s fault but the publisher‘s.)
This book doesn‘t really have a plot. It‘s more of an array of portraits or vignettes of the people living in Saha. It‘s clearly a critique of current society and events and throws the injustice of class into the spotlight. It wasn‘t uninteresting. However it was difficult to get into in the beginning. That may be because a) the plot was thin and b) the story jumps back and forth in time and it wasn‘t always clear what happened when. Also because the plot was so non-existant, it was a bit difficult to keep people‘s stories together. More vignettes of people‘s lives that are by themselves intriguing and well put together than one big story.