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Hard cover, 8vo, in buff colored paper-covered boards, with titles in red to the spine, in the original, unclipped pictorial dust jacket featuring art by June Park, 450pp. **This novel was shortlisted for the 2025 British Booker Prize. CONDITION: Fine, as new, in a Fine dust jacket, now protected in mylar.** "One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, is Korean, but was born and raised in Japan; he lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her Midwestern family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne's illegitimate son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences." ".Shifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again and again to that night by the sea, "Flashlight" chases the shock waves of one family's catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history. A monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner, Susan Choi, "Flashlight" spans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heart gripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see." (blurb)**Novelist Susan Choi teaches Writing Seminars at John Hopkins University, has published a number of prize-winning titles, and won prestigious fellowships. This novel was shortlisted for the 2025 British Booker Prize. (AMJ)
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