With spare, evocative prose, Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, 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.
Though 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 his traumatic past so he might let go and move on.
In Snow Hunters, Yoon proves that love can dissolve loneliness; that hope can wipe away despair; and that a man who has lost a country can find a new home. This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and absolute tenderness.
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“Snow Hunters reads like a dream. In
this quiet, evocative rendering, we espy lives muted by war, altered by loss
and displacement, and ultimately mended by the salvaged threads of memories and
love. Paul Yoon’s writing intimates the emergence of a master stylist, each
sentence a jewel to be admired.”
—
Vaddey Ratner, New York Times bestselling author of In the Shadow of the Banyan