[DeepL Translation - needs review] 2020 Young Writers Award Grand Prize Winner, Kang Kang-gil Evolution of the Novel World!
After winning the 2020 Young Writers' Prize for her short story "Eum Bok Fuk," Kang Kang-gil, who has become a representative of Korean women's thriller fiction, has published her second full-length novel, "The Ghost of the Great Fire Hotel." In her first novel, "A Decent Man," and her first full-length novel, "The Other," she shed light on the social issue of violence ...
This novel starts out with: "이것은 소설이다. 소설에 불과하다."
Which makes you think you are in for a gothic horror, and you are (kind of) (for a bit). But actually what this novel turned out to be was a matroyshka doll of stories about stories.
About the stories people tell about their lives, others and the past. The way we choose to ardently believe some things but are inherently suspicious of others. And in each of the layers of the story the author is talking about how we are in some way always victim