Flashlight

Susan Choi

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The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime. One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.

The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.


Format:Hardback 464 pages
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Jonathan Cape Ltd
ISBN:9781787335127
Published:10 Jul 2025
Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features
Weight:692g
Dimensions:241 x 163 x 41 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom

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