Generator (Paperback)

Rinny Gremaud

ISBN 10: 1639640711 / ISBN 13: 9781639640713

Published by Schaffner Press, 2026

About this Item

Paperback. In this first novel by Korean/Swiss journalist Rinny Gremaud, a woman's search for father, a former US engineer at international nuclear power facilities, provides the backdrop to this compelling personal journey that takes the reader not only into her emotional turmoil, but explores the story of nuclear power generation from its origins in the post-WWII era to the present. With richly descriptive vignettes of the dormant or abandoned sites she visits, from Taiwan to Wales to midwestern United States, the narrator reimagine her father's life on this emotional journey in search of her own identity and sense of belonging in the world. A woman's global search across several abandoned nuclear facilities for her father, an engineer at these sites, who had abandoned her and her mother provide the crux to this emotionally compelling first novel by Korean/Swiss journalist Rinny Gremaud. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Generator (Paperback)
• Publisher: Schaffner Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1639640711
• ISBN 13: 9781639640713
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In this first novel by Korean/Swiss journalist Rinny Gremaud, a woman's search for father, a former UK engineer at international nuclear power facilities, provides the backdrop to this compelling personal journey that takes the reader not only into her emotional turmoil, but explores the story of nuclear power generation from its origins in the post-WWII era to the present. With richly descriptive vignettes of the dormant or abandoned sites she visits, from Taiwan to Wales to midwestern United States, the narrator reimagine her father's life on this emotional journey in search of her own identity and sense of belonging in the world.

About the Author

Born in 1977 in Busan, South Korea, Rinny Gremaud is a journalist and novelist. She is the editor-in-chief of T magazine (Le Temps ) and lives in Lausanne. Her first book, Un monde en toc , (All the World's a Mall) was published in 2018. in spring 2023, her first novel entitled Generator was published by Sabine Wespieser é diteur.