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Simon & Schuster
August 2018
On Sale: August 14, 2018
256 pages
ISBN: 1501154095
EAN: 9781501154096
Kindle: B01M740TQX
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Historical
In The Mountain, award-winning and acclaimed author
Paul Yoon reveals his subtle, ethereal, and strikingly
observant style with six thematically linked stories, taking
place across several continents and time periods and
populated with characters who are connected by their
traumatic pasts, newly vagrant lives, and quests for solace
in their futures. Though they exist in their own distinct
worlds (from a sanatorium in the Hudson Valley to an inn in
the Russian far east) they are united by the struggle to
reconcile their traumatic pasts in the wake of violence, big
and small, spiritual and corporeal. A morphine-addicted
nurse wanders through the decimated French countryside in
search of purpose; a dissatisfied wife sporadically takes a
train across Spain with a much younger man in the wake of a
building explosion; a lost young woman emigrates from Korea
to Shanghai, where she aimlessly works in a camera sweat
shop, trying fruitlessly to outrun the ghosts of her past. In this "fantastic collection" (Los Angeles Times),
“Paul Yoon’s dazzling use of wordplay, pacing, and the quiet
authenticity of his characters…makes him one of the most
evocative writers working today” (Kirkus Reviews,
starred review). With The Mountain, “Yoon proves
himself a literary alchemist, transforming tragedy into
beauty with deft reminders of our universal
connections…Joining such luminaries as Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot
Díaz, and Alice Munro, Yoon has undoubtedly earned
membership in the exclusive coterie of today’s finest
writers of the short form” (Library Journal, starred
review).
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