A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family.
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 Korean immigrant community in post-war 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.
| ISBN: | 9781529932515 |
| Publication date: | 11th June 2026 |
| Author: | Susan Choi |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 516 pages |
| Primary Genre | Literary Fiction |
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A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family.
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 Korean immigrant community in post-war 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.
Flashlight features in the following genres: Literary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion
Flashlight is available in Paperback, Hardback
Flashlight was written by Susan Choi and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Flashlight has 516 pages
£9.89
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