Please join us to discuss Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins.

It’s a bitterly cold winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a run-down guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration for his latest book in this desolate landscape. The two form an uneasy relationship.

Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Shortlisted for The Scott Moncreiff Prize 2021

‘A punchy first novel.’ — Guardian Top 10 Best New Books in Translation

About our book club:

We meet at 6:30pm on the third Tuesday of the month to discuss a piece of recently translated literature, usually fiction. New members are always welcome and may drop in and out as it suits. Each meeting lasts about one hour. The books we choose are available from good bookshops and libraries.