β Scribed by Paul Yoon
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, Snow Hunters is βa subtle, elegant, poignant readβ (Oprah.com), featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailorβs apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past.
βExquisitely enigmaticβ¦a small but radiant star in the current literary firmamentβ (The Dallas Morning News), Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, a twenty-five-year-old North Korean POW refugee who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life in a port town on the coast of Brazil.
Though he is a stranger in a strange land, throughout the years in this town, four people slip in and out of Yohanβs life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works, and who has his own secrets and a past he does not speak of; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and...
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