Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon
This book is so well written! I often stopped just to soak in various passages due to the lovely writing. I loved the gentle pace and the way the characters went about observing their worlds and building their lives.
A young man grows up in North Korea, lives through the war, and spends some time in a POW camp. Later he makes a getaway on board a cargo ship, the only passenger among the paid crew. He disembarks in Brazil where he knows no one and speaks no Portuguese. His life carries on as he sorts out his war trauma and his new surroundings.
The writing is almost spare yet very poetic. The pace is steady; life goes on. I grew to love the characters.
my friend's grandchildren, twins, a couple of years ago
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