Gu Byeong-mo
Author of The Old Woman with the Knife
About the Author
Image credit: Photo of South Korean author Byeong-mo Gu.
Works by Gu Byeong-mo
Apartment Women: A Novel 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- 구병모
Ku, Pyŏng-mo - Birthdate
- 1976
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Birthplace
- Seoul, South Korea
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Statistics
- Works
- 5
- Members
- 291
- Popularity
- #80,411
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 23
- ISBNs
- 26
- Languages
- 7
The action is vivid, jarring, ugly. The protagonist is believably creaking, both physically and mentally.
Not sure there's any real tension in the book, though. We kind of know all through what will happen in the end. Is that a problem? Perhaps not.