02721cam a2200337 4500 539880912 TxAuBib 20211201120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781948830997 194883099X B0914KC3VQ Amazon f956b80a-70e5-4b56-8d30-823ead510b60 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6193372 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shua Dusapin, Elisa. Winter in Sokcho [OverDrive]. Open Letter, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2188kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p>2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE<br /></p> <p><b><br /></b></p><b>As if Marguerite Duras wrote <i>Convenience Store Woman</i>—a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author</b><br /> 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 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.<br /> 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.<br /> An exquisitely-crafted debut, which won the Prix Robert Walser, <i>Winter in Sokcho</i> is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. Elisa Shua Dusapin's voice is distinctive and unmistakable. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-12-01 11:58:26. Higgins, Aneesa Abbas. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f956b80a-70e5-4b56-8d30-823ead510b60&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f956b80a-70e5-4b56-8d30-823ead510b60&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f956b80a-70e5-4b56-8d30-823ead510b60&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)