Our beaches are still waiting for the end of a war that's been going on for so long people have stopped believing it's real. The nameless narrator explains the ambiguous state the locals find themselves in, of trying to ignore an elephant in the room whose dimensions preclude doing so: The border to North Korea isn't really very close - it's sixty kilometers away - but even at this distance there are tangible signs that there is still an ongoing conflict, with a coastline scarred: "by the line of electrified barbed wire fencing along the shore".
Winter in Sokcho in set in the South Korean town of Sokcho, a popular seaside tourist destination with a bustling beach in the summer - but not a place many people venture to in the frigid winter. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Dusapin's language, describing water, waves and fish, is precise and monumental, as if to suggest these things are settled and will never change but the narrator's anxiety about Kerrand's art proves that everything is in flux, depending on the gaze." - Yoojin Grace Wuertz, Times Literary Supplement (.) This is a winter to outgrow and to look back on. " Winter in Sokcho, beautifully translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, comes together slowly, like a Polaroid photo, its effects both intimate and foreign."Though slippery in its thematic effect, the language in this masterful short novel is to the point, written in sharp first-person and full of indirect speech." - Ellen Peirson-Hagger, New Statesman.Dusapin's terse sentences are at times staggeringly beautiful, their immediacy sharply and precisely rendered from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins" - Catherine Taylor, The Guardian "Body dysmorphia abounds (.) Identity is in crisis, with the toweringly obvious symbol of a land divided hanging over it all.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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