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永不告別
by Han Kang
Read in Mandarin. IB 2025?!
Very abstract with lots of metaphors that I’m sure I didn’t fully get. I loved how the writing intertwines the past and present—at times I couldn’t tell them apart. And perhaps that’s the message, that what ever happened in the past still lives in us, that we can never forget history, that we shouldn’t look away.
This story is about the 1948 Jeju uprising, where the South Korean government (with support from the US government) massacred 30k (~10% of the population) “suspected communists”. Some historians describe this event as a genocide.
Very abstract with lots of metaphors that I’m sure I didn’t fully get. I loved how the writing intertwines the past and present—at times I couldn’t tell them apart. And perhaps that’s the message, that what ever happened in the past still lives in us, that we can never forget history, that we shouldn’t look away.
This story is about the 1948 Jeju uprising, where the South Korean government (with support from the US government) massacred 30k (~10% of the population) “suspected communists”. Some historians describe this event as a genocide.