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'The Old Fire' by Elisa Shua Dusapin (Review)

Swiss writer Elisa Shua Dusapin burst onto the scene several years back with Winter in Sokcho, a slender atmospheric novel set in an out-of-season Korean coastal town, and since then she’s taken readers on trips to Japan (The Pachinko Parlour) and Russia (Vladivostok Circus), each time in the ...

Overview

The French-Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin’s first three novels circled the Sea of Japan, combining family stories with depictions of intercultural encounter. Winter in Sokcho (2016; 2020), which was adapted for film by Koya Kamura in 2024, follows a young woman’s quiet domestic upheavals ...