“Winter in Sokcho”
Comforting Read for Dark Evenings
Today’s book by a French Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin is a perfect recommendation for long, dark January days and nights if you feel like cuddling up in a blanket with a season appropriate book 🌊
It really is one of the most beautiful fiction reads in a while for me.
The story is about a French Korean girl working in a guest house in Sokcho (a resort town in South Korea located very close to the North Korean border).
A French comic book writer moves in the guesthouse during the cold non-touristy winter months, and their interesting, complex relationship begins.
“Winter in Sokcho” is a perfect story about human connection, melancholy and winter. It is also about how the mundane life can be easily affected by external, political circumstances (in so many parts of the story, it is clear that South Korea and North Korea are at the constant state of war).
If I had to describe this book in a few words, it would be: touching, cosy, melancholic.
As you might know, I don’t publish book recommendations without a beer. Books and beers, this is what I do here on Medium.
Beer recommendation to go with today’s book will be a Southern Summit pale ale by a Scottish Loch Lomond brewery (featuring my labrador Odin who is pictured considering whether this beer can is a treat or not):
