Michael’s Reviews > Human Acts > Status Update

25 pages in and it is quite clear this intends to be a raw, confrontational novel. Not a surprise considering it was written in the aftermath of South Korea electing the daughter of the country's former tyrannical President.

"Why would you sing the national anthem for people who’d been killed by soldiers? Why cover the coffin with the Taegukgi? As though it wasn’t the nation itself that had murdered them.”