Once the Shore

by Paul Yoon

Overview

Ethereal stories set on a South Korean island introduce a haunting new voice in international fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932511901
Publisher:	Sarabande Books
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	283
File size:	305 KB

About the Author

Paul Yoon is the author of the story collection, Once the Shore, The Mountain, and the novel, Snow Hunters, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award. His latest short story collection, The Hive and the Honey (S&S, 2023), won the 20th annual Story Prize. He is the recipient of a fellowship from The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and his work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, VQR, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Short Stories. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, the fiction writer Laura van den Berg, and teaches creative writing at Harvard University.

What People are Saying About This

“Paul Yoon writes stories the way Fabergé made eggs: with untold craftsmanship, artistry, and delicacy. Again and again another layer of intricacy is revealed, proving that something as small as a story can be as satisfying and moving as a Russian novel.”—Ann Patchett

Editorial Reviews

Yoon's prose is spare and beautiful…the beauty of these stories is precisely in their reserve: they are mild and stark at the same time…Most of the collection's characters move through events with a resignation or forbearance rare in contemporary fiction. Once the Shore is the work of a large and quiet talent.
—The New York Times

Joan Silber

Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times Book Review, Slate, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, GQ, Poets & Writers, Harper's Magazine, Ploughshares, Post Road, Salamander, TriQuarterly, Redivider

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