![]() The narrator seems infatuated in him – but this isn’t presented in any obvious way, just the way she interacts with him, and thinks about him. Kerrand wants her to teach him about Sokcho and Korea – personally, I think he’s a bit strange. He treats her with indifference, ignoring her at times, interested at other times. ![]() Kerrand and our narrator have an interesting relationship of sorts. Is it a common thing in South Korea?Ī famous graphic-novel artist called Kerrand stays at the hotel for some time to draw inspiration from the area for his next ‘prize-winning’ piece of work. He often suggests she should consider having plastic surgery (bad move), Interestingly, plastic surgery is raised by several characters in this story. Our narrator has a relationship with an idiot boyfriend who wants to be a model in Seoul – they have any love in their relationship. ![]() The young woman narrator is unnamed and is working in a run-down hotel managed by a miserable man called Park. ![]() This story is based in Sokcho, a popular tourist resort town in the north of South Korea, not far from the border with North Korea. Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Dusapin is one of the most atmospheric books I have read in a long while. ![]()
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