{"product_id":"snow-hunters-paperback","title":"Snow Hunters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Yoon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, \u003ci\u003eSnow Hunters\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Exquisitely enigmatic...a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eSnow Hunters\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSnow Hunters\u003c\/i\u003e, \"quotidian-surreal craft-master\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine) 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\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and absolute tenderness.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Yoon is the author of four previous works of fiction: \u003ci\u003eOnce the Shore, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book; \u003ci\u003eSnow Hunters, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Young Lions Fiction Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain, \u003c\/i\u003e which was an NPR Best Book of the Year; and \u003ci\u003eRun Me to Earth, \u003c\/i\u003e which was one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's Must-Read Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 6.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760690626848,"sku":"9781476714820","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1289ecf933150e193a4fc37a8d4a7f7c.webp?v=1780187002","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/snow-hunters-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}