A review by reader_rida
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

2.0

An easy to read book which I finished in one sitting, but I honestly don't know what it was about or if I truly understood it. Maybe it was a slice-of-life kind of thing. At one point, I thought the French man was the protagonist's father, here to reconnect with his daughter but no, that wasn't it. Then I thought the main character was going to poison the French man but that doesn't happen either.

So much is about to happen but it doesn't happen. The subtleties that I usually enjoy in a book fall flat in this novella. 2 stars for the style of writing, the description of Korean food and the bone-chilling winter.