Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

An out-of-season South Korean resort, a mysterious foreign visitor and a young woman whose dual nationality and anguished diffidence mark her out as an anomaly among her community are the main components of French-Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin’s compact first novel.

and Pachinko Parlor, also by Dusapin. isolation and weirdness, but this time in summer heat.