EAN: 9781787335134

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton author of Birnam Wood 'Instantly bewitching' Jennifer Egan author of A Visit From the Goon Squad 'A rich generational saga that teems with intelligence' Financial Times The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century which takes them from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime One evening ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk a Korean émigré completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing probably drowned. The disappearance of Louisa's father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US this traumatic event reverberates across time and space and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels. ' Big bold and surprising' Guardian 'Engrossing... Choi is an astute convincing writer' Sunday Telegraph ' Susan Choi is a master of rendering relationships with utter particularity' Raven Leilani author of Luster 'I couldn't put it down and once I finished I couldn't stop thinking about it' Barbara Demick author of Nothing to Envy

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