"Ferocious... [Han Kang] has been rightfully celebrated as a vision- ary in South Korea.... Han's glorious treatments of agency, per- sonal choice, submission, and subversion find form in the parable.... Ultimately, though, how could we not go back to Kafka? More than The Metamorphosis, Kafka's journals and 'A Hunger Artist' haunt this text."
-Porochista Khakpour, New York Times Book Review "Astonishing... Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation."