This was great! Not light reading, if, like me, you want to understand the historical references and separate fact from fiction, you will wind up with several open tabs. Unless you are deeply familiar with Korean colonial history perhaps? Even then, there is a mixture of shocking but true facts, with intriguingly plausible falsehoods that I imagine would draw some cross referencing. As a result, I was often pulled out of the experience, which made it a halting read. Hard to succinctly describe in a genre sense, sort of of scifi, with playful historical fiction peppered with conspiracy theories. I think I get what it's going for, some kind of transformative myth-building. It's cool and I can't think of anything very similar to it, that alone seems worth a lot. Singular.