Élisa Shua Dusapin
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Language
English
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From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women's calves, men's shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long.
It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned...
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Language
Español
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Claire está a punto de cumplir treinta años y con la llegada del verano, decide ir a pasar una temporada con sus abuelos maternos en Tokio y acompañarlos en un viaje a su Corea natal, que abandonaron cuando comenzó la guerra civil y a donde nunca han regresado.
En Tokio, Claire se reencontrará con los recuerdos de su infancia y con un país donde no puede evitar sentirse una extraña. De sus abuelos la separan la distancia generacional y el idioma:...
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Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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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 authorIt'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...