Flashlight (Signed on title-page)

Choi, Susan

ISBN 10: 037461637X / ISBN 13: 9780374616373

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2025

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Unread book is author's highly acclaimed novel which has been short listed for the 2025 Booker Prize as well as long listed for the NBA for fiction. It is tight & square with a complete number line including "1" It was Signed, by the author, on the title-page, at the bookstore from whom I purchased the book. The mylar protected Dj is price-intact with a complete number line including "1". and is lovely. There is a removable "Signed Copy" sticker on the from panel of DJ.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flashlight (Signed on title-page)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037461637X
• ISBN 13: 9780374616373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author on Title-Page

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Synopsis

Short-listed for the Booker Prize
Long-listed for the National Book Award

“The first major American novel to be published this year.” ―Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
“Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking.” ―Sam Worley, New York Magazine

A Must-Read: The New York Times, New York Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The Chicago Review of Books, Forbes, Literary Hub, and Town & Country

“A major world writer . . . Choi is in thrilling command.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Devastating.” ―Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“Ranks among her best work.” ―Hamilton Cain, Los Angeles Times

A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick

A novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.

One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.

Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, is Korean, but was born and raised in Japan; he lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her Midwestern family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne’s illegitimate son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences.

But now it is just Anne and Louisa, Louisa and Anne, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of great loss. United, separated, and also repelled by their mutual grief, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happened to Louisa’s father?

Shifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Flashlight chases the shock waves of one family’s catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history.

A monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi, Flashlight spans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heart-gripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see.

About the Author

Susan Choi is the author of Trust Exercise, which received the National Book Award for fiction, as well as the novels The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and My Education. She is a recipient of the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, a Lambda Literary award, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.