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Flashlight

Choi, Susan
120.00 AED
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108.00
English

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''Ferociously smart and full of surprises, Flashlight is thrilling to the last'' ELEANOR CATTON

A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family.

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.

Flashlight is a masterpiece that moves between the Korean immigrant community in post-war Japan, to suburban America, and the North Korean regime, to tell the astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of twentieth century history.

''Instantly bewitching... a writer at the height of her spectacular powers'' JENNIFER EGAN

''Susan Choi is a master of rendering relationships with utter particularity'' RAVEN LEILANI

''Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down, and once I finished, I couldn’t stop thinking about it'' BARBARA DEMICK

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025
WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026

A moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime...

'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton

'Engrossing... Full of brains and mystery' Telegraph

One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.

This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk's disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels.

A Book of the Year for the Guardian, Time, New Yorker, Esquire, Vanity Fair, FT and Barack Obama

'Big, bold and surprising' Guardian

'Illuminates the buried secrets of the human heart' Oprah Daily

'Gorgeous... Almost impossibly heartbreaking' New York Magazine

'It will make your head spin in the best way' Dakota Johnson

'Endlessly dazzling' Vogue

READERS LOVE FLASHLIGHT

'Compelling, fascinating, original. Read this book'
'Five stars. Heartbreaking'
'A beautifully written story of a family across decades'
'I loved it - the best read in years. Glorious'
'Absolutely brilliant'

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