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Winter in Sokcho

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by Elisa Shua Dusapin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)Publish date:2021-04-27Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830416ISBN-10:1948830418UPC:9781948830416Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, Small Town & RuralAward:2021 National Book Awards Winner - Translation AwardSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCHAFCFV03

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman--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, which won the Prix Robert Walser, Winter in Sokcho is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. Elisa Shua Dusapin's voice is distinctive and unmistakable.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830416ISBN-10:1948830418UPC:9781948830416Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, Small Town & RuralAward:2021 National Book Awards Winner - Translation AwardSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCHAFCFV03
Shua Dusapin, Elisa: - Elisa Shua Dusapin was born in France in 1992 and raised in Paris, Seoul, and Switzerland. Winter in Sokcho is her first novel. Published in 2016 to wide acclaim, it was awarded the Prix Robert Walser and the Prix Régine Desforges and has been translated into six languages.Higgins, Aneesa Abbas: - Aneesa Abbas Higgins has translated books by Elisa Shua Dusapin, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Ali Zamir, and Nina Bouraoui. Seven Stones by Vénus Khoury-Ghata was short-listed for the Scott-Moncrieff Translation Prize, and both A Girl Called Eel by Ali Zamir and What Became of the White Savage by François Garde won PEN Translates awards.
Publisher: Open Letter

Awards

🏆 2021 National Book Awards Winner - Translation Award

Contributor(s)

Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)

Author

Elisa Shua Dusapin

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