![]() ![]() She and Kerrand discuss Maupassant and Normandy, in English, as she is too intimidated to speak French. ![]() Kerrand is demanding and aloof, declining the narrator’s cooking in favour of convenience store snacks, but fascinates by virtue of his nationality the narrator’s French father skipped town, leaving his daughter to discover France through literature. She must also juggle a frail mother – her anchor to Sokcho – and a solipsistic boyfriend, making for two love triangles. The Frenchman intends to leave the guest house for somewhere better but lingers as if under a spell, staying in Sokcho until wringing all he can from the desolate town and Dusapin’s similarly desolate narrator, whom he entices to show him around in her spare time. That was Sokcho, always waiting, for tourists, boats, men, Spring.” Winter in Sokcho author Elisa Shua Dusapin ![]() Who is he and why does he pick such a hostile season to visit this town, which features almost as another character? “Oozing winter and fish, Sokcho waited. Dusapin uses the mysterious visitor and strange narrator, who struggles with an eating disorder, to explore the question of identity. ![]()
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