Winter in Sokcho

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Winter in Sokcho

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Author: Élisa Shua Dusapin

Type: Paperback

ISBN: 9781911547549

Date: 20th February, 2020

Publisher: DAUNT BOOKS

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It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. 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 fishmarket 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.

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