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Winter in Sokcho

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Winter in Sokcho

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ISBN: 9781922585011
Title: Winter in Sokcho
Author: DUSAPIN ELISA SHUA


Winner of the Prix Robert Walser -- a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author.


It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North's watchtowers. A young French-Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. The two form an uneasy relationship. When she agrees to accompany him on trips to discover an 'authentic' Korea, they visit snowy mountaintops and dramatic waterfalls, and cross into North Korea. But he takes no interest in the Sokcho she knows -- the gaudy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where her mother works. As she's pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings, she strikes upon a way to finally be seen.


An exquisitely crafted debut, Winter in Sokchois a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. Elisa Shua Dusapin's voice is distinctive and unmistakable.

Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

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Weight 176 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 13 mm