I Hear Your Voice, Youngha Kim
I Hear Your Voice, Youngha Kim
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I Hear Your Voice

Author: Young-ha Kim, Krys Lee

Narrator: David Shih

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/11/2017


Synopsis

In South Korea, underground motorcycle gangs attract society's castoffs. They form groups of hundreds and speed wildly through cities at night. For Jae and Dongyu, two orphans, their motorcycles are a way of survival.

Jae is born in a bathroom stall at the Seoul Express Bus Terminal. And Dongyu is born mute—unable to communicate with anyone except Jae. Both boys grow up on the streets of Seoul among runaway teenagers, con men, prostitutes, religious fanatics, and thieves. After years navigating the streets, Jae becomes an icon for uprooted teenagers, bringing an urgent message to them and making his way to the top of the gang. Under his leadership, the group grows more aggressive and violent—and soon becomes the police's central target.

A novel of friendship—worship and betrayal, love and loathing—and a searing portrait of what it means to come of age with nothing to call your own, I Hear Your Voice resonates with mythic power. Here is acclaimed author Young-ha Kim's most daring novel to date.

About Young-ha Kim

Young-ha Kim is the author of seven novels-four published in the United States, including the acclaimed I Have the Right to Destroy Myself and Black Flower-and five short story collections. He has won every major Korean literature award, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ocean on September 13, 2017

I can't really take more than one Young-Ha Kim book per year or so, even though he's one of my favorite authors. This is a very odd and heavy book, but an incisive view into Seoul's underbelly and the "lost kids" that inhabit it. There also seems to be a lot of symbolism that I'm sure I'm missing he......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 22, 2019

I love Asian literature. While not drifting into magical realism, it so often contains ‘ghosts’ or things that lie outside the boundaries of science, and this is the case with ‘I Hear your Voice’. The story of Jae and Dongyu might have been titled ‘Motorcycle Gangs meet the Messianic’, or ‘Bikers an......more

Goodreads review by SL on November 15, 2020

CW/TW: Violence, blood, child/domestic abuse (child neglect), dubious consent, sexual assault/violence Towards the end of this book, I'm unsure how to feel. The first half was quite strong, but I had a harder time connecting to the latter half. (I don't attempt to really hide spoilers here, so take c......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on May 08, 2017

A very different but interesting book.Jae and all his thoughts and ideas made for an interesting read.I dont know how to categorize this book but if you want an interesting read try this book.I received this book free as part of goodreads giveaways.......more

Goodreads review by Bella Azam on April 03, 2024

Psychologically disturbing, exploring the dark reality of abandonment, abuse and violence of the runaways teenager and gang culture. I hear your voice started strong with bloody and gory detailed scene of a childbirth in a public bathroom by a young girl whom desperately goes into a labour in one of......more