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Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Dusapin's language, describing water, waves and fish, is precise and monumental, as if to suggest these things are settled and will never change but the narrator's anxiety about Kerrand's art proves that everything is in flux, depending on the gaze." - Yoojin Grace Wuertz, Times Literary Supplement (.) This is a winter to outgrow and to look back on.

" Winter in Sokcho, beautifully translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, comes together slowly, like a Polaroid photo, its effects both intimate and foreign.

"Though slippery in its thematic effect, the language in this masterful short novel is to the point, written in sharp first-person and full of indirect speech." - Ellen Peirson-Hagger, New Statesman.

Dusapin's terse sentences are at times staggeringly beautiful, their immediacy sharply and precisely rendered from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins" - Catherine Taylor, The Guardian

"Body dysmorphia abounds (.) Identity is in crisis, with the toweringly obvious symbol of a land divided hanging over it all.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Published in Le Temps.Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Published in Contes et Nouvelles (Prix Interrégional Jeunes Auteurs). Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Daunt Books, 2022 Open Letter Books, 2022). Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Daunt Books, 2020 Open Letter Books, 2021).

Her second novel, Les Billes du Pachinko, was published in 2018. In 2016, Elisa Shua Dusapin published her first novel, Hiver à Sokcho, which won numerous awards, including the Prix Robert-Walser, Prix Alpha and the Prix Régine-Deforges. Elisa Shua Dusapin, born 23 October 1992 in Sarlat-la-Canéda, France, is a Franco-Korean writer currently living in Switzerland.