6/21/2023 0 Comments Winter in sokcho goodreads![]() These brief conversational asides contrast with the book’s omnipresent viscerality: the narrator’s mother, an expert at cooking the potentially deadly fugu or pufferfish, has a fish market stall where scales and blood are routinely trod underfoot, like the painful collective memories of a divided country. For the narrator, the contrast with Sokcho seems stark: “You had to be born here, live through the winters. ![]() She has studied French he talks of Maupassant, Monet and the “grey and dense” light of his native Normandy. ![]() Hair combed to one side.” While he invites the narrator to assist him in his search for ‘authentic’ Korea, he is curiously averse to her offers of local cuisine, preferring western takeaways, and constantly citing an aversion to “spicy” food. Kerrand is old enough to be her unknown French father. ![]() The unexpected arrival at the hotel of a guest from France, a comic-book artist called Kerrand, stirs a frenzy in the young woman, in whom he takes a sporadic but intense interest. Terse and sometimes staggeringly beautiful prose … Elisa Shua Dusapin. ![]()
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