{"product_id":"9781922585011","title":"Winter In Sokcho","description":"Author: Dusapin, Elisa Shua\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922585011\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribe Publications\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jul 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 128 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs if Marguerite Duras wrote \u003ci\u003eConvenience Store Woman\u003c\/i\u003e - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exquisitely-crafted debut, which won the Prix Robert Walser, \u003ci\u003eWinter in Sokcho\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. Elisa Shua Dusapin's voice is distinctive and unmistakable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mysterious, beguiling, and glowing with tender intelligence, \u003ci\u003eWinter in Sokcho\u003c\/i\u003e is a master class in tension and atmospherics, a study of the delicate, murky filaments of emotion that compose a life. Dusapin has a rare and ferocious gift for pinning the quick, slippery, liveness of feeling to the page: her talent is a thrill to behold.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Alexandra Kleeman, author of \u003ci\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Enigmatic, beguiling ... This finely crafted debut explores topics of identity and heredity in compelling fashion. In its aimless, outsider protagonist there are echoes of Sayaka Murata's \u003ci\u003eConvenience Store Woman\u003c\/i\u003e.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Gilmartin, Irish Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Dusapin's terse sentences are at times staggeringly beautiful, their immediacy sharply and precisely rendered from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins ... Oiled with a brooding tension that never dissipates or resolves, \u003ci\u003eWinter in Sokcho\u003c\/i\u003e is a noirish cold sweat of a book.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Catherine Taylor, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198019023006,"sku":"UBD-9781922585011","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922585011.jpg?v=1787745591","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922585011","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}