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"At once as delicate and durable as the filament a spider weaves...the finest of fables...a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament." -Dallas Morning News
"[A] quotidian-surreal craft-master." -New York Magazine
Yoon's highly anticipated debut novel SNOW HUNTERS promises to be even more beloved than the collection of stories that introduced him to the literary world. Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must let go of his traumatic past.
In Snow Hunters, Yoon proves that love can dissolve loneliness, that hope can wash away despair, and that a man who has lost a country can find a new home. This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and tenderness.
- Sales Rank: #160044 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-06
- Released on: 2013-08-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Yoon’s debut novel (following his beautiful short story collection, Once the Shore, 2009) follows the experiences of Yohan, a North Korean prisoner of war, on his path toward creating a new life in spite of his tragic past. At the end of the Korean War, 25-year-old Yohan, having spent two years in a South Korean war camp, declines to return to his home country and immigrates to Brazil. He arrives in a coastal town where arrangements have been made for him to work as an apprentice to an elderly Japanese tailor. As the years pass, Yohan’s life in Brazil is punctuated by harrowing memories from his time in the camp as well as experiences from his youth. While loss and loneliness imbue many of his reflections, Yohan finds solace—and hope—in his new surroundings and relationships. Among his circle are a genial groundskeeper of the local church and two young vagrants who flit in and out of Yohan’s life. Yohan’s journey is one of loss, memory, and identity, and Yoon’s delicate prose creates a haunting perspective. --Leah Strauss
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“[A] quotidian-surreal craft-master.” (New York Magazine)
“The brief, simple sentences that form this elegant tone poem of a novel, called Snow Hunters, have the effect of making you slow down to read them.” (Entertainment Weekly)
“Yoon’s debut novel began as a 500-page draft pared down to about 200 pages that reveal the same shimmering, evocative spareness of his 2009 collection, Once the Shore. The result is that rare, precious gem, with every remaining word to be cherished for the many discarded to achieve perfection. One of this year’s best reads.” (Library Journal (Starred Review))
“Expectations were high for [Yoon’s] debut novel—and with Snows Hunters, he has fulfilled them… An introspective and moving novel to savor.” (Bookpage)
“The collection Once the Shore showcased Yoon’s piercing powers of story and language; this novel continues his stunning trajectory with prose so pristine it feels supernatural.” (Publishers Weekly )
“Yoon’s delicate prose creates a haunting perspective.” (Booklist)
“Ordinary moments take on a graceful quality that might have gone unnoticed in less skilled hands…A minimalist, well-crafted story.” (Kirkus)
“At first glance Paul Yoon appears to be the perfect miniaturist, but behind every subtle gesture this novel shimmers with a deep and complex history. Snow Hunters is a beautiful and moving meditation on a solitary life." (Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto )
“Paul Yoon's sentences are startlingly beautiful. Lucid and clean and resonant, they build, in Snow Hunters, to form a novel that is deceptively light and extraordinarily tender." (Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia and The Monsters of Templeton )
"Snow Hunters reads like a dream. In this quiet, evocative rendering, we espy lives muted by war, altered by loss and displacement, and ultimately mended by the salvaged threads of memories and love. Paul Yoon’s writing intimates the emergence of a master stylist, each sentence a jewel to be admired." (Vaddey Ratner, author of In the Shadow of the Banyan )
“Paul Yoon offers a profound look at the consequences of war, and what it means to begin a new life in the wake of its devastations...Brief in length, Snow Hunters is truly expansive in its scope, and written in language as clear and bracing as snowmelt.” (Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Ms. Hempel Chronicles )
“Paul Yoon proves himself well suited to the short form…the pleasures of Snow Hunters are many, and they begin with Yoon’s prose, at once lyrical and precise…[the novel] is all the more powerful for its brevity.” (Tatjana Soli New York Times Book Review)
“Pretty perfect …Yoon not only illustrates intimacy on the page, but creates it between the reader and Yohan. By the end of Yoon's relatively brief novel, Yohan becomes real — a character you won't soon forget.” (The Atlantic Wire)
“A poetic portrait of a man’s life in loneliness…Yoon’s short stories were praised for their spare and beautiful prose, and Snow Hunters, too, shares that. Yoon often calls to mind Hemingway’s directness.” (Boston Globe)
“Exquisitely enigmatic…a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament.” (Dallas Morning News)
“‘Luminous’ is a word that gets overused in book reviews, but it’s sublimely apt for Paul Yoon’s new novel, Snow Hunters…Yoon’s original manuscript was over 500 pages, which may explain why every page here feels compressed as a diamond. This is the kind of subtle, meditative book that could easily fade to a whisper of an ending, but instead something quite real happens. That it happens in a boat, just as lights begin to appear on shore, makes it all the more perfect.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
“Yoon’s gift as a writer is to reveal the meaning in the smallest moments…A subtle, elegant, poignant read.” (
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67 of 69 people found the following review helpful.
Precious
By Roger Brunyate
PRECIOUS. The word can have two meanings. Rare, valuable, exquisite -- or just too self-consciously arty for its own good. The trouble is that both meanings can apply to this book, and it entirely depends on your taste whether you treasure it or dismiss it. So let me try to keep my own mood out of this for as long as possible, and look at the book objectively: first the facts, then the arguments pro and con.
FACTS. The story begins in 1954, shortly after the end of the Korean War. A North Korean soldier named Yohan is released from the POW camp, where he had stayed on after the end of hostilities doing various odd chores. Electing not to return to the North, he is sent by the UN to an unnamed Brazilian port city where he becomes the apprentice to a Japanese tailor called Kiyoshi. At first, he feels lost so far from home, but the tailor is kind and he soon finds himself taking more responsibility in the business and making friends in the community, especially an older groundskeeper named Peixe, and two children, a girl and boy named Bia and Santi. Indeed, one of his most treasured possessions is an old blue umbrella given him by Bia when he first lands. By the time the book ends a decade later, he will feel "he had made a life; he had entered the future."
PRO. First and foremost, Yoon writes beautifully. It is the kind of book that gets hailed as prose-poetry, filled with simple but lovely word pictures. More importantly, Yoon has the ability to segue from a physical description to its interior meaning. So for example, he describes a juggler, blindfolded for show, but really blind underneath, practising with children's shoes to the delight of the kids. But then he imagines him going home at the end of the day and removing his blindfold: "He rubs his eyes, squints from the light. I imagine this for him. In my dreams, he takes all of us by the waist and throws us into the air. He lifts his arms and we rise. He watches us. And it is beautiful."
CON. This is clearly written and marketed, not as a normal novel, but as something exquisite. Its short length, square-page format, and artistic design combine with the poetic quality of the writing to make something self-consciously beautiful. Poesy rather than poetry. Perhaps it is the cynic in me, but I feel that is am being flattered for my aesthetic discernment in appreciating it, just as THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG is designed to flatter its readers as intellectuals. There is a deliberate vagueness to the writing, especially as to place and the passing of time, that is part of the poetic miasma, but it has the downside of not making anything quite real. There are flashbacks, for example, to the horrors of war and captivity, but they have little bite. There are moments of joy also, but few of them come convincingly into focus. As a result, while the general arc of the book is clear, it lacks defining events and there seems little real reason why it ends where it does.
AND YET, one thing that Yoon does quite well is to capture the peculiar mental situation of the displaced person; even as a voluntary emigrant, I can recognize this. Looking back on his past life, Yohan "thought of these years as another life within the one he had. As though it were a thing he was able to carry. A small box. A handkerchief. A stone. He did not understand how a life could vanish." And although the watercolor washes of Yoon's prose makes it difficult to grasp the hereness and nowness of any particular moment, they do have the great advantage of making all Yohan's various lives flow together. There are many times in the later parts of the book when you lose track of whether you are reading about Yohan's life in Brazil, his wartime experiences, or his childhood in Korea. Not only these time periods but to a certain extent also the lives of the other characters, Kiyoshi, Peixe, Bia and Santi, are linked together by images and parallel experiences in a way that would be quite impossible with more literal writing.
SO... what kind of picture do you want? A poetic watercolor, a substantial oil painting, or an engraved map? If the first of these, Paul Yoon's book will seem a miniature marvel. It is not my preference, and were I rating simply on the basis of personal liking, I would give it only three stars. But for what it sets out to do, and for the right reader, how can I deny five?
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Minimalistic And Yet Expansive
By Jill I. Shtulman
There is not one spare word in Paul Yoon's Snow Hunters, a 192-page reverie to what it means to start a new life after traumatic loss and displacement. Written in a minimalistic style, the writing style might be described as "ala prima" - quickly sketching the scenario with rapid and broad brushstrokes, at the same time creating lines to establish the form.
The story centers loosely around Yohan, a solitary man who chooses to restart life on the coast of Brazil rather than submit to repatriation at the end of the Korean War. There, he works for a tailor named Kiyoshi, who symbolically, creates new clothes for him, one each year. The others - Peixe, the groundskeeper at the two church and two orphaned children named Santi and Bia - represent his entire world.
Hidden in this simplicity are some complex and poignant revelations: "He thought of these years as another life within the one he had. As though it were a thing he was able to carry. A small box. A handkerchief. A stone. He did not understand how a life could vanish. How that was even possible." Much as he wants to connect, he cannot.
He is unable to mine his inner life or embrace the one that is in front of him. As Mr. Yoon writes, "He understood that he would never be able to hold all the years that had gone in their entirety. That those years would begin to loosen, break apart, slip away. That there would come a time when there was just a corner, a window, a smell, a gesture, a voice to gather and assemble."
Here is where the book rating system gets challenging. Does Paul Yoon succeed in elegantly creating a meditation to second chances, a poetic and lucid ode to shedding one's old skin and moving quietly and steadfastly to connection and joy? Yes he does. This is a confident author who is in control of his material.
But did I find it particularly satisfying? Aye, there's the question...and it's a question that will no doubt be answered differently by each reader. I felt curiously distanced and disconnected; I admired, rather than loved. While I appreciated and understood what Paul Yoon was doing, I was seeking a more visceral interaction with Yohan that eluded me. In short, I wanted more. But that's just me. 5 stars for execution, yet only 3 stars for my personal reading experience -- which results in my 4 star rating.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
A quiet observation...
By Alison D D
Beautifully told, this is a quiet story about a young North Korean man, Yohan,who after being caught by the Americans during the Korean war and held as a prisoner of war in a camp for 3years, is eventually released and sent to a coastal town in Brazil to start a new life. Here, he is to be an apprentice of a Japanese tailor, Kiyoshi. The story is mainly told through a wonderfully descriptive and at times lyrical prose, where we see Yohan's life past and present mainly through his memories, observations, feelings and descriptions of people he knows and meets. It is amazing how much one can visualize from a few written words. Every now and again A character will enter to be a meaningful piece of his story, from a childhood friend, who was also in the camp with him, to his father and more currently the tailor, Kiyoshi, Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church, and two vagrant children Santi and Bia, all teaching him something that helps him in his life.
At the end of the book, we are presented with and interview by the NY Times with the author and a piece that really stuck with me was when asked if if the other books he had been reading influenced him in the writing of this story, he states: " I do think there is a part of me that wrote Snow Hunters as a response to the many books I was reading at that time. In my childhood imagination I always have a selfish fantasy that a book I adore is a letter written to me. And so I write one back. And eventually all of them find one another somewhere in some dead letter office and exist together happily, privately, forever."
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