Flashlight
Seiten
2025
Jonathan Cape (Verlag)
978-1-78733-512-7 (ISBN)
Jonathan Cape (Verlag)
978-1-78733-512-7 (ISBN)
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**
‘Ferociously smart and full of surprises’ Eleanor Catton
‘A family epic… Engrossing’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Extraordinary… Heartbreaking’ Roddy Doyle
‘Sheer pleasure’ Financial Times
The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime
One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.
The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.
'Big, bold and surprising’ Guardian
‘Instantly bewitching’ Jennifer Egan
‘Four generations’ worth of family life… Endlessly dazzling’ Vogue
‘A major world writer… Choi has a profound gift’ New York Times
‘I couldn’t put it down, and once I finished, I couldn’t stop thinking about it’ Barbara Demick
‘Ferociously smart and full of surprises’ Eleanor Catton
‘A family epic… Engrossing’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Extraordinary… Heartbreaking’ Roddy Doyle
‘Sheer pleasure’ Financial Times
The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime
One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.
The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.
'Big, bold and surprising’ Guardian
‘Instantly bewitching’ Jennifer Egan
‘Four generations’ worth of family life… Endlessly dazzling’ Vogue
‘A major world writer… Choi has a profound gift’ New York Times
‘I couldn’t put it down, and once I finished, I couldn’t stop thinking about it’ Barbara Demick
Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Flashlight began as a short story and received the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Susan Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.07.2025 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 243 mm |
| Gewicht | 696 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78733-512-7 / 1787335127 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78733-512-7 / 9781787335127 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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