David's Reviews > Winter in Sokcho

This is a beautifully spare novel with little action on the surface but plenty of emotion underneath. The story is set off-season in Sokcho, a South Korean beach town within a stone’s throw of the Korean DMZ. The narrator is a 24-year-old woman who has returned to her hometown of Sokcho after studying in Seoul. She meets a Frenchman, Kerrand, who is staying a a run-down hotel and most of the novel focuses on their interactions. So much is left unsaid in this quiet work, which is full of wistfulness, yearning, and hope.