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One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. The two form an uneasy relationship.
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$14.95 ... 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 ...
Winter in Sokcho
Novel by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Originally published: August 18, 2016
Author: Elisa Shua Dusapin
Genre: Literary fiction
Language: French
Translator: Aneesa Abbas Higgins
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Reoccurring themes in Winter in Sokcho include self image, identity crisis, and vulnerability. The narrator's perception of her body is an inner struggle throughout the book; she frequently mentions that she goes periods of up to days without eating and then gorges herself when she is around her mother.
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Literary fiction
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This is a chilly, sneaky book that comes to a slow simmer and then threatens to boil over. (Since preparing meals, eating meals, and cleaning up after meals ...
Winter in Sokcho (French: Hiver à Sokcho) is the first novel by French-Korean writer Elisa Shua Dusapin published in 2016. It was translated by Aneesa Abbas ...
Elisa Shua Dusapin's language is spare, elegant, and richly evocative. The novel is full of the sights, sounds, and smells of this windswept seaside town. Food ...
Elisa Shua Dusapin's voice is distinctive and unmistakable. Judges Citation. This spare and visceral novel evokes the atmosphere of abandonment and isolation as ...
Mar 3, 2024 · Our protagonist in Winter in Sokcho is a young woman who works at a local in under an ahjusshi named Park. She is one of the few young people ...
Jul 6, 2021 · It's an intense short novel set during the winter in the Korean coastal town of Sokcho, and follows a young woman working at a run-down hotel.
May 13, 2022 · I like themes such as alienation, search for identity, loneliness, family dynamics, and stories that are understated, subtle, where everything ...
Feb 28, 2020 · The tension builds in Elisa Shua Dusapin's first novel after a mysterious guest arrives at a dead-end South Korean hotel.