Winter in Sokcho Native American Literature 'Stunning and deeply affecting

'Stunning and deeply affecting

sailors in Homer's Odyssey stuffed wax in their ears to resist the Sirens

'Breathtaking' OBSERVER

Her vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning

the fish market where her mother works

Winter in Sokcho Native American Literature 'Stunning and deeply affectingAs if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author. Its winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the Norths watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest