Cho Nam-Joo

Jamie Chang

A Novel

Saha

사하맨션

Saha touched on societal issues like classism, class/wealth inequality, poverty cycles, corrupt governments through mini stories split up per Saha-apartment dweller, but there wasn't much resolution. 

conclusions to situations felt very spoonfed, and (perhaps i don't understand the book well enough) but the ending was left very open & strange - Why would the Spokesperson immediately explain the secrets behind the Ministry when the book had been building up the "no one was in the room when it happened" message throughout? Woomi's story was never "completed" and we don't find out what happens to her and Do-kyung

i think more commentary on Why the Town dwellers (L's and L2's) were so apathetic about the inequality, even after the Butterfly Riot (years ago) would clear up confusion + prevent the book from ending so anti-climatically

Saha touched on societal issues like classism, class/wealth inequality, poverty cycles, corrupt governments through mini stories split up per Saha-apartment dweller, but there wasn't much resolution. 

conclusions to situations felt very spoonfed, and (perhaps i don't understand the book well enough) but the ending was left very open & strange - Why would the Spokesperson immediately explain the secrets behind the Ministry when the book had been building up the "no one was in the room when it happened" message throughout? Woomi's story was never "completed" and we don't find out what happens to her and Do-kyung

i think more commentary on Why the Town dwellers (L's and L2's) were so apathetic about the inequality, even after the Butterfly Riot (years ago) would clear up confusion + prevent the book from ending so anti-climatically

Saha mansion

thea

** spoiler alert **
           tidak sesuai ekspetasi
blurb nya aja yg kek wow, tp isinya ga ada
ga dikasi tau siapa pembunuhnya, ga ada tujuannya
tiap bab kek cerpen doang, wasting of time

TIME - Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2022 From the international best-selling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes this chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix's Squid Game.

azliana aziz

interesting read. i feel this could be a very good basis for screen adaptation with its convincing final girl act. reading some reviews wow it's a bit funny how misunderstood was this one....

Kristen Claiborn

I am having a hard time conjuring words to describe both this book and how I feel about this book. This might have been the most bizarre book I have read in 2022. This author had previously been a National Book Award finalist for a book I never read. I have found that I typically don’t enjoy the National Book Award books, so I didn’t have high expectations for this one prior to reading it. I thought the synapsis was intriguing, however, so I might have held onto a little hope that it might be decent. 
	It was not, in fact, decent. It was bizarre. The “story,” if it can even be described as such, is very character-centric. The reader is thrown into a sad apartment complex called Saha, with a cast of misfits that don’t fit into society. They live in a country called Town, previously controlled by a failed corporation and taken over by a vague council who are unknown to the people of Town. Every person has a designation as either a citizen, L2, or on a working contract and thus legally able to live in Town. Anybody not under one of those designations was considered an illegal alien. Saha housed many illegal aliens, in a series of buildings without electricity or running water. The residents of Saha are the main focus, and the reader is given extensive but incomplete information for many of them. We meet the brother and sister who arrived as refugees, a strange Granny, the janitor, a research specimen who isn’t fully aware that’s what she is, and a disgraced doctor. They are all hiding something, and hiding from something; scraping out life every way they are able. 
	What emerges is more a series of character studies that are connected than a story with a cohesive plot line. While they’re all just trying to stay alive, the hows and the whys aren’t very clear. We are given what should be the climax of the story, but then it just kinda petered away into nothingness. There were so many questions left unanswered that it’s hard to consider this an actual story. This is book that incudes a bunch of pictures of different people that don’t quite come together as a bigger picture. There are too many holes and missing pieces. I was pretty disappointed with the end, which just made the entire book disappointing.

Saha A Novel

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