Cheon Myeong-Kwan – Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com Writing in the post-truth world Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:18:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177517995 Book Review – Whale, by Cheon Myeong-Kwan https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2023/08/31/book-review-whale-by-cheon-myeong-kwan/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2023/08/31/book-review-whale-by-cheon-myeong-kwan/#respond Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:14:53 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=2615

Whale, by Korean writer Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-Young Kim, is a well-written shaggy dog story that reads like an R-rated fairy tale. It was short-listed for the International Booker Prize. Reviewers compare the magical realism of it to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Here’s what The Massachusetts Review says:

https://www.massreview.org/node/11299

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