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Elisa Shua Dusapin

Biography

Elisa Shua Dusapin

Elisa Shua Dusapin was born in France and raised in Paris, Seoul and Switzerland. Her debut novel, WINTER IN SOKCHO, was awarded the Prix Robert Walser, the Prix Régine Desforges, and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature, and her books have been translated into 35 languages. She lives between Amman and Switzerland.

Elisa Shua Dusapin

Books by Elisa Shua Dusapin

by Elisa Shua Dusapin - Fiction

Agathe leaves New York and returns to her home in the French countryside, after 15 years away. She and her sister Véra have not seen each other in all those years, and they carry the weight of their own complicated lives. But now their father has died, and they must confront their childhood home on the outskirts of a country estate ravaged by a nearby fire before it is knocked down. They have nine days to empty it. As the pair clean and sift through a lifetime’s worth of belongings, old memories and resentments surface.