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The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Winter in Sokcho, which won 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 ...Show more
Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Category: Fiction
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 begin ...Show more
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin; Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)
Category: No Category
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman -- a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author. 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 gun ...Show more
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