Review: Oxford Soju Club

Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I picked this book out because it happened to have a character whose name is the same as someone I work with. While the Dr. Ryu I work with is a man and a spine surgeon, this book’s Dr. Ryu is a woman and a doctor to the spies, responsible for one of the most memorable conversations in this book. Other memorable conversations come about from the spies themselves - Koreans, North vs. South, and when we’re in the northern POV, the political commentary about the West becomes particularly gothic, in the sense that it’s using another country known for abominably treating its citizens to critique the West for using many of the same methods, just funhouse mirrored.

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