Flashlight - Choi, Susan

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Résumé :

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker ? Time ? New York ? The Washington Post ? NPR ? Los Angeles Times ? The Boston Globe ? The Guardian ? Vanity Fair ? Elle ? Town & Country ? Oprah Daily ? The New York Post ? 48 Hills ? Financial Times ? The Economist ? Esquire (UK) ? Kirkus Reviews ? Electric Literature ? PEN America ? The Chicago Public Library ? Los Angeles Review of Books

One of President Obama's Favorite Books of 2025

EXPLOSIVE. (The New York Times Book Review) ? GORGEOUS. (New York) ? SHOCKING. (NPR) ? DEVASTATING. (The Washington Post) ? ASTONISHING. (The Atlantic) ? MARVELOUS. (NBC's Weekend Today in New York)

Short-listed for the Booker Prize ? Long-listed for the National Book Award ? Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal ? Short-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction ? Finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ? Finalist for the Orwell Prize ? Long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award ? Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize

A TeaTime and Get Lit Book Club Pick

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...

Biographie:
Susan Choi is the author of Trust Exercise, which received the National Book Award for Fiction, as well as the novels The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and My Education. She is a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn, New York....

Sommaire:
Susan Choi is the author of Trust Exercise, which received the National Book Award for fiction, as well as the novels The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and My Education. She is a recipient of the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, a Lambda Literary award, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn, New York....