Snow Hunters: A Novel

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Synopsis

Winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, Snow Hunters is “a subtle, elegant, poignant read” (Oprah.com), featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor’s apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past.

“Exquisitely enigmatic…a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament” (The Dallas Morning News), Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, a twenty-five-year-old North Korean POW refugee who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life in a port town on the coast of Brazil.

Though he is a stranger in a strange land, throughout the years in this town, four people slip in and out of Yohan’s life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works, and who has his own secrets and a past he does not speak of; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia, a boy and a girl, who spend their days in the alleyways and the streets of the town. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must sift through the wreckage of his traumatic past so he might let go and move on.

In Snow Hunters, “quotidian-surreal craft-master” (New York magazine) Paul Yoon proves love can dissolve loneliness; that hope can wipe away despair; and that a man who lost a country can find a new home. “The brief, simple sentences that form this elegant tone poem of a novel…have the effect of making you slow down to read them—which is a fitting way to experience the story of a man unmoored by memory and time” (Entertainment Weekly). This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and absolute tenderness.

Chapters

  • SnowHunters 01 OpeningCredits

    Duration: 36s
  • SnowHunters 02 Part1 Chapter1

    Duration: 23min
  • SnowHunters 03 Chapter2

    Duration: 15min
  • SnowHunters 04 Chapter3

    Duration: 12min
  • SnowHunters 05 Part2 Chapter4

    Duration: 17min
  • SnowHunters 06 Chapter5

    Duration: 10min
  • SnowHunters 07 Chapter6

    Duration: 11min
  • SnowHunters 08 Chapter7

    Duration: 06min
  • SnowHunters 09 Chapter8

    Duration: 15min
  • SnowHunters 10 Chapter9

    Duration: 11min
  • SnowHunters 11 Chapter10

    Duration: 08min
  • SnowHunters 12 Chapter11

    Duration: 12min
  • SnowHunters 13 Part3 Chapter12

    Duration: 13min
  • SnowHunters 14 Chapter13

    Duration: 12min
  • SnowHunters 15 Chapter14

    Duration: 13min
  • SnowHunters 16 Chapter15

    Duration: 07min
  • SnowHunters 17 Chapter16

    Duration: 14min
  • SnowHunters 18 Chapter17

    Duration: 05min
  • SnowHunters 19 Chapter18

    Duration: 09min
  • SnowHunters 20 ClosingCredits

    Duration: 56s