[ David Hoon Kim - Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost ]
Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost
by David Hoon Kim
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0374229724 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 243 pages | epub | 2 MB
In a disorienting and seamy Paris, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved
When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she's already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik, an aspiring translator, these remnants are like clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her doppelgänger, reappears: in line at the Louvre, on street corners and subway platforms, and on the dissection table of a group of young medical students, including "you."
Henrik's inquiry expands beyond Fumiko's seclusion and death, across the absurd, entropic streets of Paris and the figures that wander them, from a jaded group of Korean expats, to an eccentric French widow, to the indelible woman whom Henrik finds sitting in his place on a train. It drives him into the shadowy corners of his past, where, as a Japanese adoptee, his Danish parents...
Absurdist Fiction, Absurdist Fiction, Asian American Literature
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