It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape.
A slim book that packs a punch; we're discussing Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin on Wednesday May 15 starting from 5 PM in the Living Room.
The Reading Without Borders Book Club is organized for EUR-students by the Living Room and the Rotterdamsch Leeskabinet, the EUR humanities library. This book club will be hosted by Sam de Vries and Elsbeth van der Ploeg in the Living Room, now located in the Langeveld-building. Our book picks come from our Reading Without Borders collection, which you can find in the Leeskabinet.
Please register at the Living Room.