Flashlight
Choi, Susan, 1969-2025
Book
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 post-war Korean immigrant community in 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.
Main title:
Flashlight / Susan Choi.
Author:
Choi, Susan, 1969-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2025.©2025
Collation:
448 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781787335134978178733513497817873351349781787335134 (paperback)9781787335127 (hardback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
832314
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | Fiction | CHOI | On loan - Due: 01 Jul 2026 |
| City Library | Fiction | CHOI | On loan - Due: 12 Jun 2026 |
| East Melbourne Library | Fiction | CHOI | On loan - Due: 28 Jun 2026 |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | Fiction | CHOI | In-transit from North Melbourne Library to Southbank Library (Set: 25 Jun 2026) |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | Fiction | CHOI | On loan - Due: 14 Jul 2026 |
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | CHOI | On loan - Due: 13 Jul 2026 |
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | CHOI | On loan - Due: 13 Jul 2026 |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | CHOI | On loan - Due: 30 Jun 2026 |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | CHOI | On loan - Due: 01 Jul 2026 |
| North Melbourne Library | Fiction | CHOI | On reserve shelf at Kathleen Syme Carlton |
| North Melbourne Library | Fiction | CHOI | On reserve shelf at Kathleen Syme Carlton |
| Southbank Library | Fiction | CHOI | On loan - Due: 30 Jun 2026 |