Snow Hunters

Yoon, Paul

ISBN 10: 1611739489 ISBN 13: 9781611739480

Publisher: Center Point, 2013

Synopsis

It is 1954 and the story traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must let go of his traumatic past.

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Review:

Yoon s gift as a writer is to reveal the meaning in the smallest moments A subtle, elegant, poignant read. --

"The collection "Once the Shore "showcased Yoon's piercing powers of story and language; this novel continues his stunning trajectory with prose so pristine it feels supernatural."--Publishers Weekly

"Yoon's gift as a writer is to reveal the meaning in the smallest moments...A subtle, elegant, poignant read."--

"Paul Yoon's slender novel Snow Hunters" is exquisitely written--the kind of book that makes you think, this is the work of a writer's writer."--Roxanne Gay "The Nation "

The collection "Once the Shore "showcased Yoon s piercing powers of story and language; this novel continues his stunning trajectory with prose so pristine it feels supernatural. --Publishers Weekly"

""Snow Hunters "reads like a dream. In this quiet, evocative rendering, we espy lives muted by war, altered by loss and displacement, and ultimately mended by the salvaged threads of memories and love. Paul Yoon s writing intimates the emergence of a master stylist, each sentence a jewel to be admired."--Vaddey Ratner, author of In the Shadow of the Banyan"

Paul Yoon s slender novel Snow Hunters" is exquisitely written the kind of book that makes you think, this is the work of a writer s writer. --Roxanne Gay "The Nation ""

The collection Once the Shore showcased Yoon s piercing powers of story and language; this novel continues his stunning trajectory with prose so pristine it feels supernatural. --Publishers Weekly"

At first glance Paul Yoon appears to be the perfect miniaturist, but behind every subtle gesture this novel shimmers with a deep and complex history. Snow Hunters is a beautiful and moving meditation on a solitary life."--Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto"

Paul Yoon's sentences are startlingly beautiful. Lucid and clean and resonant, they build, in Snow Hunters, to form a novel that is deceptively light and extraordinarily tender."--Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia and The Monsters of Templeton"

About the Author:

Paul Yoon was born in New York City. His first book, Once the Shore, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book, a Best Debut of the Year by National Public Radio and won a 5 under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation. His novel, Snow Hunters, won the 2014 Young Lions Fiction Award. He is a former fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and his stories have appeared in Harper's Magazine, VQR, the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Short Stories. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is currently a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University along with his wife, the writer Laura van den Berg.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1611739489
• ISBN 13: 9781611739480
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 191