A complex and moving lyrical masterpiece of unprecedented accolade. I cannot express how highly I rate this truly extraordinary story! I won't divulge aspects of the plot but merely attempt to relay the emotions this novel conjured in me. 
 The book is entirely concerned with one person, Yeong-hye, and yet we hear little in her actual perspective. We believe we know her three times over from the three altering perspectives we receive about her person, from those closest to her. I earn to know her mind as, despite troubled, she appears to be a beautiful and misunderstood soul. I felt like I shared so much with Yeong-hye, despite never having felt close to knowing her at all. 
 This book is short and yet is full of intricacies and complexities that said so much by saying so little. It approached far more than the simple story it seemed to tell and spoke of not just one person but a gender, an identity, an ethnicity, a class, and a region of people. 
 This is an intensely emotional, evocative and deeply moving story that will remain in my mind for a long time to come and is already begging to be reread. I don't possess the words to do this book justice but read this bizarre and yet brilliant, polarizing tale and tell me it doesn't speak to something inside of you.