Review: Red Sword by Bora Chung

Check out my review of Bora Chung’s first novel in English, translated by Anton Hur, in the latest issue of World Literature Today.

“Based on the story of seventeenth-century Korean soldiers fighting against Russia on behalf of the Qing dynasty, Red Sword is a story about war, though here it is the far future, where a vast Empire roams the galaxy finding civilizations from which it can extract resources and technology.…”