Sokcho winter6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Elisa Shua Dusapin s voice is distinctive and unmistakable. One of the northeastern-most cities in South Korea, Sokcho is about as deep into Korea’s deep winter as you can venture. As she s pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings, she strikes upon a way to finally be seen.Īn 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. 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. 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. ![]() One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. ![]() A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North s watchtowers. 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. ![]()
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