Snow Hunters: A Novel

By Paul Yoon

Book Overview

A haunting literary debut of a Korean POW learning to adapt to a new life in Brazil from the novelist New York Magazine calls a "quotidian-surreal craft-master." Snow Hunters 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. In Snow Hunters , Yoon proves that love can dissolve loneliness, that hope can wash away despair, and that a man who has lost a country can find a new home. This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and tenderness.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476714819
• ISBN13: 9781476714813
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.9" x 5.0"