Flashlight
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2026
Vintage (Verlag)
978-1-5299-3251-5 (ISBN)
Vintage (Verlag)
978-1-5299-3251-5 (ISBN)
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**
‘Ferociously smart and full of surprises’ Eleanor Catton
‘A family epic… Engrossing’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Extraordinary… Heartbreaking’ Roddy Doyle
‘Endlessly dazzling’ Vogue
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, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.
This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk’s disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels…
‘Big, bold and surprising’ Guardian
‘Gorgeous… Almost impossibly heartbreaking’ New York Magazine
‘Instantly bewitching’ Jennifer Egan
‘A major world writer… Choi has a profound gift’ New York Times
‘Ferociously smart and full of surprises’ Eleanor Catton
‘A family epic… Engrossing’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Extraordinary… Heartbreaking’ Roddy Doyle
‘Endlessly dazzling’ Vogue
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, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.
This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk’s disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels…
‘Big, bold and surprising’ Guardian
‘Gorgeous… Almost impossibly heartbreaking’ New York Magazine
‘Instantly bewitching’ Jennifer Egan
‘A major world writer… Choi has a profound gift’ New York Times
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5299-3251-3 / 1529932513 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5299-3251-5 / 9781529932515 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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