I Hear Your Voice opens with a brief prologue of sorts, variations of stories of a spectacular old magic trick - nicely beginning: 'A rope descends from the sky, so the beginning itself is strange' and concluding with the narrator revealing his changed perspective, how in one variation of this story the magician disappeared and he used to wonder what became of him, while now what interests him is the assistant who was left behind.

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' I Hear Your Voice is ultimately an invitation for the reader to further seek out Korean literature-and to truly understand the nuanced distinctions of a people both celebrating and bleeding' - E.J.Koh, World Literature Today.Krys Lee deserves credit for her skilled translation.' - Malcolm Forbes, The National His warts-and-all portrayal of young disaffected, disenfranchised or delinquent misfits recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero, and his characters’ anguished alienation is as palpable as that found in Haruki Murakami’s fiction. 'Kim excels with his tour of Seoul’s underbelly and his examination, or evisceration, of urban culture.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī+ : a compelling modern-Christ-variation Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.

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