No One Writes Back

I've been wanting to read a piece of Korean literature since a really long time ago, but for some reason I never got around to it until now. I didn't know what to pick and so I didn't pick any book, but my curiosity started growing so I managed to get a title and I started reading.

Right from the start, this book felt different than anything I've read until now. To me it felt very calm, very slow and uneventful although a lot of things happened. Because of that it took me a long time to read it and only thinking about another book that recently came out and that I really want to read made me pick up pace. By that I don't want to say this book is not good, I did actually enjoy it, I liked going on this journey with 0, I was curious about him from the start and wanted to know everything that this book was going to reveal to me. And it did reveal quite a lot, I slowly learned everything about 0, about his family, and about the various people he met during his travels.

I liked the format of the book, it's unusual and I think that gives the story more personality, it makes it feel more like 0's story.

In the last few pages all kinds of sensations rushed in. Surprise, sadness, realisation, joy, relief, and hope. I could have probably picked up on at least some of them while reading, but I read this book at a very leisurely pace. Now I feel like maybe I should have read it with more enthusiasm, but between the book not being what I usually enjoy at this time and feeling very slow, I couldn't. It makes me wonder, after looking at other reviews, if not this was the author's intention all along, to somehow make this book blend in our day to day, to make it feel like nothing happens, just as in our everyday; we don't point out every single thing that happens to us.

As a conclusion, I enjoyed No One Writes Back, it's a reflective book that made me want to write letters. I enjoyed 0's journey, I got to really like him and also be mad at the ones who I felt wronged him.