Flashlight: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 - Softcover

Choi, Susan

9781529932515: Flashlight: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

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ISBN 10: 1529932513 ISBN 13: 9781529932515

Publisher: Vintage, 2026

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**

‘Ferociously smart and full of surprises’ Eleanor Catton

‘A family epic… Engrossing’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Extraordinary… Heartbreaking’ Roddy Doyle

‘Endlessly dazzling’ Vogue

The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime

One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.

This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk’s disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels…

‘Big, bold and surprising’ Guardian

‘Gorgeous… Almost impossibly heartbreaking’ New York Magazine

‘Instantly bewitching’ Jennifer Egan

‘A major world writer… Choi has a profound gift’ New York Times

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About the Author

Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction – and was a US bestseller. Flashlight began as a short story and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2021. Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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