Kim David Hoon
Kim David Hoon - Paris Is A Party Paris Is A Ghost A Novel - Paperback
Kim David Hoon - Paris Is A Party Paris Is A Ghost A Novel - Paperback
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Description: David Hoon Kim's debut novel Paris Is a Party Paris Is a Ghost is a transgressive darkly comic novel of becoming lost and found in translation. In a strangely distorted Paris a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room she's already dead leaving a half - smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend Henrik Blatand an aspiring translator these remnants are like clues propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile Fumiko or perhaps her doppelg nger reappears: in line at the Louvre on street corners and subway platforms and on the dissection table of a group of medical students. Henrik's inquiry expands beyond Fumiko's seclusion and death across the absurd entropic streets of Paris and the figures that wander them from a jaded group of Korean expats to an eccentric French widow to the indelible woman whom Henrik finds sitting in his place on a train. It drives him into the shadowy corners of his past where his adoptive Danish parents raised him in a house without mirrors. And it mounts to a charged intimacy shared with his best friend's precocious daughter who may be haunted herself. With each successive echoic chapter Paris Is a Party Paris Is a Ghost plunges readers more deeply beneath the surface of things to the displacement exile grief and desire that hide in plain sight.
Title: Paris Is A Party Paris Is A Ghost A Novel
Author(s): Kim David Hoon
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250849243
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/2/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: David Hoon Kim's debut novel Paris Is a Party Paris Is a Ghost is a transgressive darkly comic novel of becoming lost and found in translation. In a strangely distorted Paris a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room she's already dead leaving a half - smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend Henrik Blatand an aspiring translator these remnants are like clues propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile Fumiko or perhaps her doppelg nger reappears: in line at the Louvre on street corners and subway platforms and on the dissection table of a group of medical students. Henrik's inquiry expands beyond Fumiko's seclusion and death across the absurd entropic streets of Paris and the figures that wander them from a jaded group of Korean expats to an eccentric French widow to the indelible woman whom Henrik finds sitting in his place on a train. It drives him into the shadowy corners of his past where his adoptive Danish parents raised him in a house without mirrors. And it mounts to a charged intimacy shared with his best friend's precocious daughter who may be haunted herself. With each successive echoic chapter Paris Is a Party Paris Is a Ghost plunges readers more deeply beneath the surface of things to the displacement exile grief and desire that hide in plain sight.
Title: Paris Is A Party Paris Is A Ghost A Novel
Author(s): Kim David Hoon
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250849243
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/2/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
