"First UK edition from Daunt Books, 2020"--Title page verso
It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, thefish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North'swatchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tiredguesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonistdetermined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. The two form anuneasy relationship. When she agrees to accompany him on trips to discoveran "authentic" Korea, they visit snowy mountaintops and dramatic waterfalls,and cross into North Korea. But he takes no interest in the Sokcho sheknows--the gaudy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where hermother works. As she's pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings,she strikes upon a way to finally be seen
