Winter in Sokcho
140$
Auteur : Élisa Shua Dusapin
Éditeur : Daunt Books Publishing
À propos : It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border of 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 North’s watchtowers. A young French-Korean woman works as a receptionist in a run-down guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives : a French graphic novelist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape.
The two form an uneasy relationship. She agrees to accompany him on his trips to discover an « authentic » Korea and they visit snowy mountaintops and dramatic waterfalls. But he takes no interest in the real Sokcho she knows : the gaudy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where her mother works. As she is pulled into his drawings, she is troubled by his vision of her – until she strikes upon a way to finally be seen.
