Description
A single moment shatters a family, and its echoes last a lifetime. One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, walk onto a breakwater while spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin, while her father is missing, presumed drowned. As Louisa and her American mother return to the United States, Serk’s disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels. Susan Choi’s novel is a story of family, buried secrets and the human heart, described as big, bold, surprising, engrossing and heartbreaking. It has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2026 and the Booker Prize 2025, and named a Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month and a Book of the Year by the Guardian, Time, New Yorker, Esquire, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times and Barack Obama.
Information
Language: English
Publication date: February 26, 2026
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: Books, Foreign language books, English literature, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 516
ISBN/EAN: 9781529932515