Saha: A Novel [Paperback]

In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. A dystopian thriller with a series of intimate character sketches that form a portrait of a community. (Imagine Winesburg, Ohio set in 1984.)... Cho draws touching portraits of her discarded denizens& illuminat[ing] the systemic enforcement of class in the same way that Kim Jiyoung revealed gender inequality&. An affecting portrait of people doing their best to survive in a world that would rather pretend they didnt exist. What is it called again when dystopian fiction seems too uncomfortably plausible: Horror? Speculative fiction? A wake-up call? Treading in territories visited over time by Dickens, Orwell, Atwood, Ishiguro,US