Brilliant, brilliant story (Apple TV+ is making a series based on it). I wasn’t really fascinated by the writing. It was good but the story was amazing and complex in the right way; well developed too

Topics touched

• intricate multigenerational story highlighting the complex race and colonial relations primarily between Korea and Japan, China starting in the 80s and ending in the early 90s.
• Colonisation
• Japan vs Korea, China and America
• Korea splitting
• The Yakuza
• identity issues and racism
• the struggle of being a woman in a poverty-stricken patriarchal society. raising kids, dealing with difficult men who don’t want them to work
• complexity of parent-children relationships