5/19/2023 0 Comments Winter in sokcho review![]() ![]() The isolation.”ĭusapin is equally adept at depicting exterior landscapes. You had to be born here, live through the winters. Even as she tries to show Kerrand her hometown, hoping to inspire him to write about it, she realises, “He’d never understand what Sokcho was like. Winter in Sokcho is an enigmatic, beguiling book that documents stasis and the helplessness felt by someone trying to overcome it. But when a stranger comes to town, in the form of Kerrand, a French writer and artist, the narrator sees her life and town through his eyes and soon becomes restless for change. The narrator’s days all have similar shape: she cleans, changes bed linen, cooks for the guests, eats her mother’s food. Her boyfriend Jun-Oh visits occasionally but is more concerned with establishing a modelling career in Seoul. ![]() Finished university, she has returned to her hometown to work in a guest house and be near her mother. The unnamed narrator of this engrossing debut novel is also waiting – for change, for something to happen, for her adult life to begin. They wait for the tourists to return, to bring some money to a region that is mired in poverty and neglect. They wait for the winter to pass and the snow to be over. They wait for the end of a decades-long conflict between north and south. "Our beaches are still waiting for the end of a war that's been going on for so long people have stopped believing it's real." In Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea, people are used to waiting. ![]()
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