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Paris Is A Party, Paris Is A Ghost: A Novel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN13:
9780374229726
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In a disorienting and seamy Paris, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, shes already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik, an aspiring translator, these remnants are like clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her doppelgänger, reappears: in line at the Louvre, on street corners and subway platforms, and on the dissection table of a group of young medical students, including you. Henriks inquiry expands beyond Fumikos seclusion and death, across the absurd, entropic streets of Paris and the figures that wander them, from a jaded group of Korean expats, to an eccentric French widow, to the indelible woman whom Henrik finds sitting in his place on a train. It drives him into the shadowy corners of his past, where his adoptive Danish parents raised him in a house without mirrors. And it mounts to a charged intimacy shared with his best friends precocious daughter, who may be haunted herself. David Hoon Kims debut is a transgressive, darkly comic novel of becoming lost and found in translation. With each disarming, echoic chapter, Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost plunges us more deeply beneath the surface of things, to the displacement, exile, grief, and desire that hide in plain sight.
- | Author: David Hoon Kim
- | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- | Publication Date: 3-Aug-21
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0374229724
- | ISBN-13: 9780374229726
- Author:
- David Hoon Kim
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication Date:
- 3-Aug-21
- Number of pages:
- 256 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0374229724
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374229726