Book review: Yu Miri’s The End Of August a feat of multilingual translation set in colonial Korea

Book review: Yu Miri’s The End Of August a feat of multilingual translation set in colonial Korea

The Straits Times - Lifestyle·2024-01-06 12:04

The End Of August

By Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles

Fiction/Riverhead Books/Paperback/710 pages/$33/Amazon SG (amzn.to/48fWEjk)4 stars

Spanning Korea’s tumultuous 20th century and told in at least four languages through the perspectives of more than 30 characters, Yu Miri’s The End Of August is pure literary ambition.

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