This is a smallish novel by the South Korean writer Hwang Sok-yong. This book follows too different and seemingly unconnected (surprise, you spend the whole novel looking for that connection) narrators. The first is Park Minwoo, a divorced architect near the end of his career (in his 60s) when at a lecture he is given a note from an old friend in his old neighborhood looking to reconnect with him. He emails her, and begins a small correspondence. Through this correspondence he also reads her […]