Whale [Minkštas viršelis]

While Whale begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot speak, introduced a the “Queen of Red Bricks,” it quickly situates her story within a longer multi-generational saga composed of three parts. While we learn of Chunhee’s tragic path to her becoming someone who makes bricks of the highest quality, the novel retraces the familial circumstances that shaped her. While poignant yet brutal,Whale is also a satire of how we—the general public, mass media, even artists and writers—tend to romanticize voiceless figures of history.