I really enjoyed this book. I haven't read any literature that told the story of North and South Korea. It is a fascinating and beautiful story!

A short novel that spans over 40 years and follows 4 generations of a Korean family from Korea to America. Each chapter is told from a different perspective which can make it difficult to follow at times.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publishers for this Advanced Readers Copy of The Liberators by E.J. Koh!

I loved THE LIBERATORS and highly recommend it to fans of literary fiction. E.J. Koh does a remarkable job at evoking the time period and getting us invested in these characters. The narrative ranges from the Gwangju Massacre to the 1988 Olympics, with startling flashbacks to Korean repatriation after Japanese surrender. The Sewol ferry accident is also touched upon, I especially enjoyed the testimony from guards, prisoners, perpetrators, and liberators and the way the author uses multiple generations to tell this dramatic and cinematic story.