Review of “Traversing Afternoon” (오후 기로지르다) by Ha Seong-nan (하성란) – 4.5 Bottles of Soju!
This only gets 4.5 because she’s got a better one behind her (Waxen Wings, the title short story of the recent collection Waxen Wings, which is currently the best short collection of Korean fiction for the casual reader). But it is a doozy that manages to combine the idea of life as a hopeless maze…