{"product_id":"flashlight-9781529932515","title":"Flashlight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 - The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from Japan to the USA to the North Korean regime  One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean emigre, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.  The disappearance of Louisa's father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781529932515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 03 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Vintage Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.7(H)x13.1(L)x3.5(W)362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 362\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eSusan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN\/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Flashlight began as a short story and received the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Susan Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich generational saga\u003c\/b\u003e that teems with intelligence, curiosity and, in terms of reading, sheer pleasure. Like the flashlight of its title it cast an evasive, variably illuminating beam…. \u003cb\u003eIt surely cannot be overlooked by this year’s Booker judges\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eChoi is one of contemporary literature’s great demolition artists, and her emotional foundations hold. She can build as well as she detonates… Like the best of those early-00s novels,\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlashlight\u003c\/i\u003e is all kinds of big: capacious of intent and scope and language and swagger\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eEngrossing... Choi is an \u003cb\u003eastute, convincing writer…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003e[is] \u003cb\u003ea rewarding read\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ambitious generational saga meets mystery thriller\u003c\/b\u003e that spans several decades and countries… The story begins with a disappearance, then ripples out from there for\u003cb\u003e a compulsive read\u003c\/b\u003e * BBC,  *Summer Reads of 2025* *\u003cbr\u003eChoi’s \u003cb\u003estartling, bristling\u003c\/b\u003e characters power this journey, which plays in the reader’s mind with \u003cb\u003ecinematic intensity\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eIn this\u003cb\u003e superbly crafted\u003c\/b\u003e book, the fraught geopolitics of family life — the official secrets, the acts of espionage, the diplomatic failures — are set against the intimacies, grievances, conflicting memories, and unmet needs of national allegiance. \u003cb\u003eFerociously smart and full of surprises, \u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003eis thrilling to the last\u003c\/b\u003e -- Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003eis\u003cb\u003e instantly bewitching\u003c\/b\u003e: a mysterious family tragedy whose solution reaches beyond psychology into geopolitics. Susan Choi’s fictional investigation reveals \u003cb\u003ea writer at the height of her spectacular powers\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jennifer Egan, author of The Candy House\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003eis a sensitive familial portrait, rigorous in its scope and complexity of feeling. \u003cb\u003eSusan Choi is a master of rendering relationships with utter particularity\u003c\/b\u003e -- Raven Leilani, author of Luster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI devoured \u003ci\u003eFlashlight\u003c\/i\u003e. Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down, and once I finished, I couldn’t stop thinking about it\u003c\/b\u003e. The plot builds like a symphony rising to a crescendo, full of surprise and wonder. The story is as astonishing as it is entirely plausible. Susan Choi clearly knows well the fraught geopolitics of Korea and Japan, and did her homework -- Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003cb\u003e a brilliant feat of storytelling, both intimate and sweeping\u003c\/b\u003e, Susan Choi has created\u003cb\u003e a profoundly moving epic\u003c\/b\u003e that blends a tender family portrait with a haunting examination of the Korean diaspora. \u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003eis that rare novel that has everything I want in fiction: \u003cb\u003egorgeous writing, fascinating characters I fell in love with, an immersive, addictive story\u003c\/b\u003e with an ending that made me gasp, then cry. I’m in awe -- Angie Kim, author of Happiness Falls","brand":"Susan Choi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48291601940697,"sku":"9781529932515","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781529932515.jpg?v=1773495017","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/flashlight-9781529932515","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}