7/3/2023 0 Comments Elisa shua dusapin booksThey haven’t mentioned our trip to Korea once since I arrived. She has grown up in Switzerland, so she speaks fluent French, and has now taken a part-time job in Tokyo, coaching Mieko while living with her grandparents in preparation for taking them back to Korea for a brief visit. Her parents had left Japan to live in Switzerland, where her father, who is an organist, travels round the country with his family giving organ recitals. They had started a new life in Japan, where they still live. As a young couple, her grandparents had fled from Korea in 1952 to escape the war. ‘Onni,’ she murmurs as if she is trying to commit it to memory.įrom then on, she remains nameless, and we gradually learn of her complicated background. I tell her to call me by my name, Claire, but it is hard for her to say: she pronounces it Calairo, so I ask her to use the Korean for big sister, onni. She calls me sensei, teacher in Japanese. We learn her name only once, when she tells 10-year-old Mieko how to pronounce it: The new novel from the award-winning author of Winter in Sokcho explores the lives of Koreans living in Japan.Īt first, the language of this novel seems spare and abrupt, but gradually it draws you into the strange, disconnected life of the narrator.
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