6/28/2023 0 Comments The Tiger's Wedding by James Dante![]() ![]() ![]() Walking from the subway stop to street level involved passing boutiques … I had heard the stories about young Gangnam males who caroused in the nightclubs and eateries, terrorizing the staff and lighting cigarettes with money. Even below ground, imitation Renaissance statues squirted water into flood-lit pools. We rode the subway into Gangnam, a chic section of Seoul. The story avoids lapsing into travelogue while at the same time taking Western readers to locations we’d be curious to see ourselves. Whether or not The Tiger’s Wedding was completed before the viral K-pop YouTube sensation of “Gangnam Style,” Dante’s description of the song’s locale provides an interesting gloss on its Day-Glo milieu: The novel is lovingly awash in quotidian details of cuisine and landscape, as well as nightlife high and low. It’s no surprise to learn from his author’s bio that Dante, a Northern Californian by way of New York, spent time teaching in South Korea. ![]()
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