Flashlight
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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 completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes up hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, likely drowned. The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit, and she and her American mother Anne return to the US profoundly changed. This traumatic event reverberates across time and space, as we follow mother and daughter trying to go on with their lives, while the mystery of what really happened to Serk that night slowly unravels.
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**
A moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime...
One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.
This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk's disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels.
A Book of the Year for the Guardian, Time, New Yorker, Esquire, Vanity Fair, FT and Barack Obama
'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton
'Engrossing... Full of brains and mystery' Telegraph
'Big, bold and surprising' Guardian
'Illuminates the buried secrets of the human heart' Oprah Daily
'Gorgeous... Almost impossibly heartbreaking' New York Magazine
'It will make your head spin in the best way' Dakota Johnson
'Endlessly dazzling' Vogue
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Additional information
| Weight | 332 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 19.7 × 12.8 × 3.5 cm |
| Book_author | Choi, Susan |
| Publisher | VINTAGE |
| Imprint | Vintage |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 516 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | 1st paperback ed |
| Dewey | 813.6 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
