A Corpse in the Koryo - ISBN:0312374313

A Corpse in the Koryo

Date: 12 April 2011, 03:41

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The book stands on its own as a good novel, which cannot always be said about detective fiction set in exotic or historical locations. The protagonist and other main characters are all fully realized and three-dimensional. Even minor characters like hotel clerks, cleaning ladies, and tour guide who appear only briefly are deftly sketched and vivid. The protagonist, while not a hero in the typical sense and in some ways not even very likable, is nevertheless a sympathetic character, as are many of the other main characters.
Along those lines, the complex narrative structure is quite clever, a sort of story within a story and it's a pleasant surprise that someone who appears to be a first-time author pulls off such a feat. The author, like Xiaolong Qiu, also pulls off the difficult feat of writing a gripping police procedural in a setting where at some level there is no procedure as we would understand it, and where the resolution of the case has more to do with the configuration of the players involved and their relative power. I'm not sure I followed all the twists of the plot, and am unclear about how at least a few of the characters fit in, but in this Kafkaesque world, it didn't matter.
This success at writing a procedural in a setting without procedure stands in contrast with many of the procedurals I have read that are set in Italy. In those procedurals, personal connections also seem to be as important as the facts, and yet with the exception of the Inspector Montalbano mysteries, I have always found them a disappointment.

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