Snow Hunters: A Novel

Snow Hunters: A Novel

<div><div><b>OPRAH.COM BOOK OF THE WEEK<br />DAILY BEAST HOT READ<br />NEW YORKER BOOK TO WATCH OUT FOR<br /><br />"At once as delicate and durable as the filament a spider weaves...the finest of fables...a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament." -Dallas Morning News<br /><br />"[A] quotidian-surreal craft-master." -New York Magazine</b></div><br /><div><b>Yoon's highly anticipated debut novel SNOW HUNTERS promises to be even more beloved than the collection of stories that introduced him to the literary world. </b></div></div><div><i></i></div> <i>Snow Hunters</i> traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must let go of his traumatic past. <br /><br /><br />In <i>Snow Hunters</i>, Yoon proves that love can dissolve loneliness, that hope can wash away despair, and that a man who has lost a country can find a new home. This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and tenderness.