Winter in Sokcho

Description

-BUILDING ON SUCCESS: Amazing review coverage for the UK edition of the book, despite coming out in the middle of COVID-19

-FOR FANS OF: Sayaka Murata, Marguerite Duras, and Han Kang. The novel is understated, lyric, emotional, and haunting, and establishes Dusapin as one of the preeminent up-and-coming young female writers of our time.

-AUTHOR BACKSTORY: Born in France to a French father and Korean mother, Dusapin currently lives in Switzerland, writing in French about South Korea. This multi-nationalism will appeal to a lot of readers, and adds a depth to her depiction of Korean life.

-A PUNCHY, QUICK READ: This book can-and frequently will-be read in a single sitting, given how compelling and fast-paced it is.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)
Published: 04/27/2021
Publisher: Open Letter
ISBN: 9781948830416
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 0.60″ H x 7.90″ L x 4.90″ W

Award: 2021 National Book Awards Winner – Translation

About the Author
Shua Dusapin, Elisa: – Elisa Shua Dusapin was born in France in 1992 and raised in Paris, Seoul, and Switzerland. Winter in Sokcho is her first novel. Published in 2016 to wide acclaim, it was awarded the Prix Robert Walser and the Prix Régine Desforges and has been translated into six languages.Higgins, Aneesa Abbas: – Aneesa Abbas Higgins has translated books by Elisa Shua Dusapin, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Ali Zamir, and Nina Bouraoui. Seven Stones by Vénus Khoury-Ghata was short-listed for the Scott-Moncrieff Translation Prize, and both A Girl Called Eel by Ali Zamir and What Became of the White Savage by François Garde won PEN Translates awards.