Review: Massacres and Ghosts – Hwang Sok-yong’s (황석영) “The Guest” (손님)
“Show me one soul that wasn’t to blame!” With the slam of a hand and a short sentence, a character in Hwang Sok-Yong’s The Guest sums up one of the bloodiest chapters in modern Korean history, and a moment that Hwang revisits decades later. That moment is a series of atrocities in Northern Korea that,…