![]() ![]() She seems to do everything – reception, cooking, cleaning – but with little enthusiasm. The novel’s unnamed first person narrator is a 24-year-old French Korean woman who works in a struggling guesthouse. I suspect Sokcho was chosen as the setting partly for its “divided” history, this being in-between, neither one thing or the other,īut, more on that later. In fact, when the Korean peninsula was divided into two countries following World War II, Sokcho was on the Northern side, but became part of the South after the 1953 Korean War armistice 1953. As the title conveys, it is set in Sokcho, a tourist town in the Republic of Korea near the border between the two Koreas. French Korean writer Elisa Shua Dusapin’s award-winning debut novella, Winter in Sokcho, was published when she was just 22 years old. ![]()
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