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A lockdown kind of life set in Korea

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A lockdown kind of life set in Korea
Article
https://cbdnews.com.au/a-lockdown-kind-of-life-set-in-korea/
Journal
CBD News
Issued Date
July 24, 2021
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
AUSTRIA
City
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Book
Winter in Sokcho
Writer
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Translator
Aneesa Abbas Higgins

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  • Elisa Shua Dusapin
  • Birth : 1992 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : -
  • Family Name : -
  • Korean Name : Elisa Shua Dusapin
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
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  • English(English)

By Rhonda Dredge Winter in Sokcho is set on the border between North and South Korea, a desolate chilly place where time rests heavily on the town and its inhabitants. The narrator of the novel works in a tired guesthouse as a receptionist with just two guests in residence. One guest is in bandages after extensive cosmetic surgery and the other is a cartoonist. The cartoonist, an offhand 50-year-old Frenchman, offers hope to the narrator, a young woman whose mother is a fishmonger. But the relationship between the underemployed receptionist and the European artist is a difficult one. Kerrand, the cartoonist, has come to Sokcho to find a story. Together, they visit sites in no man’s land to peer across the border at North Korea but generally they fail to develop the rapport the narrator craves. The cartoonist needs to find an image he can insert into the heroic adventures of his character and appears to be blind to her attentions.

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