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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. The two form an uneasy relationship....
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"It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents' daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above...The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven't been back since. When they...
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"Agathe leaves New York and returns to her home in the French countryside, after fifteen years away. She and her sister V̌ra have not seen each other in all those years, and they carry the weight of their own complicated lives. But now their father has died, and they must confront their childhood home on the outskirts of a country estate ravaged by a nearby fire before it is knocked down. They have nine days to empty it. As the pair clean and sift...
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Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Tonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent . . . when I think of all those little bodies suspended between earth and sky, it makes me smile to remind myself that for some of them, their first flight begins with a fall.
Nathalie arrives at the
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From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women's calves, men's shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long.
It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old
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Sokcho é a paisagem imóvel, a folha em branco sobre a qual será desenhado inquietante relacionamento entre a recepcionista de uma pousada decadente e um cartunista francês, que chegara ao balneário em busca de inspiração. É inverno, e o frio desacelera tudo: as acomodações estão calmas, as ruas, vazias e úmidas e os mal-entendidos, suspensos. A tinta escorre sobre o papel, implacável. Um vínculo frágil se estabelece entre esses dois...
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Tras quince años separadas, Agathe, guionista en Nueva York, vuelve a encontrarse con Véra, su hermana pequeña y afásica, en la casa familiar del Périgord en la que han crecido. Han acordado su venta y tienen nueve días para vaciar el lugar de objetos, muebles, ropa, libros. Las piedras de los muros antiguos servirán para restaurar el palomar vecino, devastado por un incendio que ocurrió hace más de un siglo. Véra se comunica con su hermana...
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Claire está a punto de cumplir treinta años y con la llegada del verano, decide ir a pasar una temporada con sus abuelos maternos en Tokio y acompañarlos en un viaje a su Corea natal, que abandonaron cuando comenzó la guerra civil y a donde nunca han regresado.
En Tokio, Claire se reencontrará con los recuerdos de su infancia y con un país donde no puede evitar sentirse una extraña. De sus abuelos la separan la distancia generacional y el idioma:...
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A Sokcho, petite ville portuaire proche de la Corée du Nord, une jeune Franco-coréenne qui n'est jamais allée en Europe rencontre un auteur de bande dessinée venu chercher l'inspiration depuis sa Normandie natale. C'est l'hiver, le froid ralentit tout, les poissons peuvent être venimeux, les corps douloureux, les malentendus suspendus, et l'encre coule sur le papier, implacable : un lien fragile se noue entre ces deux êtres aux cultures si différentes....