Sweet Potato: Collected Short Stories by Kim TonginMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I feel a bit embarrassed to say this, but this book just never really clicked for me. Many of the stories blend in together and I can't say I enjoyed most of them. In fact, I gave up and came back to this book more than once.
Regardless, I guess my favorite stories were probably Fire Sonata and Sweet Potato.
I feel guilty because I know Kim Tongjin is considered a very important author in early modern Korean literature - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dong-in . Maybe much of it was just over my head, or I don't understand the symbolism or background behind what he was writing.
Apparently the story "Traitor" is about Yi Kwang-su? If so that is quite interesting.
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