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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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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), βPaul Yoonβs dazzling use of wordplay, pacing, and the quiet authenticity of his charactersβ¦makes him one of the most evocative writers working todayβ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). With The Mountain, βYoon proves himself a literary alchemist, transforming tragedy into beauty with deft reminders of our universal connectionsβ¦Joining such luminaries as Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot DΓaz, and Alice Munro, Yoon has undoubtedly earned membership in the exclusive coterie of todayβs finest writers of the short formβ (Library Journal, starred review).
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