Published on December 21, 2024 at 12:21 p.m. / Modified on December 21, 2024 at 12:23.
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There is something unsettling about hearing him speak in such a soft voice about events as terrible as what is currently happening in the Middle East. Elisa Shua Dusapin currently lives in Amman, capital of Jordan, where she is learning Arabic and plans to spend two years, “or even three”. She is working on her fifth novel there, and to be able to concentrate, she needs perspective and isolation. “In Switzerland and France, there are too many requests, I had to move away,” she says when we meet her on the occasion of the Lausanne preview ofWinter in Sokchoadaptation by Franco-Japanese filmmaker Koya Kamura of his first novel, published in 2016 by Geneva-based publisher Zoé. The film has been showing in French-speaking cinemas since Wednesday, and it will not disappoint those who so loved this intimate little story about the meeting, in Sokcho, between a young Franco-Korean woman working in a small inn and a French designer who came to seek inspiration from the other side of the world.
Of Franco-Korean origin like the narrator of this first attempt translated into more than 30 languages and winner of the prestigious National Book Award in its English version, Elisa Shua Dusapin grew up between Paris, Seoul and Porrentruy. A graduate of the Swiss Literary Institute of Bienne, she has an irresistible attraction for elsewhere which pushed her to live four months a year in Japan – where the film takes place Pachinko Balls (2018) – for seven years, traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway, living in a circus to write Vladivostok Circus (2020), then to settle for five months “in the depths of Périgord” to The old fire (2023). Despite the incessant requests and the release of the adaptation ofWinter in Sokchoshe agreed to write for Time an end-of-year story, which she titled The Shine of a Star…and which takes place in Amman.
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