{"product_id":"winter-in-sokcho-9781948830416","title":"Winter in Sokcho","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs if Marguerite Duras wrote \u003ci\u003eConvenience Store Woman\u003c\/i\u003e--a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt'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.\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exquisitely-crafted debut, which won the Prix Robert Walser, \u003ci\u003eWinter in Sokcho\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. Elisa Shua Dusapin's voice is distinctive and unmistakable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShua Dusapin, Elisa:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eElisa Shua Dusapin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in France in 1992 and raised in Paris, Seoul, and Switzerland. \u003ci\u003eWinter in Sokcho\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHiggins, Aneesa Abbas:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAneesa Abbas Higgins\u003c\/b\u003e has translated books by Elisa Shua Dusapin, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Ali Zamir, and Nina Bouraoui. \u003ci\u003eSeven Stones\u003c\/i\u003e by Vénus Khoury-Ghata was short-listed for the Scott-Moncrieff Translation Prize, and both \u003ci\u003eA Girl Called Eel\u003c\/i\u003e by Ali Zamir and \u003ci\u003eWhat Became of the White Savage\u003c\/i\u003e by François Garde won PEN Translates awards.","brand":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606654161170,"sku":"9781948830416","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fa3df5a5-6179-46be-afbf-444ea07f9fa3.jpg?v=1732297620","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/winter-in-sokcho-9781948830416","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}