Snow Hunters : A Novel (Hardcover)

from shayrp76

*I won this book via Goodreads* 5 Stars After the Korean War, Yohan finds himself making a new life on the coast of Brazil. There he finds himself the friend and apprentice of a tailor, Kiyoshi. Through their work he learns a new language and the way of life in the community. Acquaintances and re...

from Alexander19

Snow Hunters is one of the most lyrical and beautiful books that I have ever had the pleasure to read. It is a immigration story set after the Korean war, and our man, Yohan is about as nice a guy as they come. I cannot even start to tell you how wonderful the prose is in the this book, it's like...

from Oh_Carolyn

Snow Hunters follows Yohan, a tailor who lives in Brazil, as he adjusts to his new life, new occupation, and as he struggles with his memories of war and friendship in his native Korea. It's a novel about place and time. Reading it, I could imagine standing in the sun on the coast of Brazil, what...

from msf59

Yohan is a North Korean war refugee. After a stint in a prison of war camp, he is able to board a cargo ship and emigrate to a Brazilian coastal town. Here, he becomes a tailor's apprentice, working under the steady hand of a quiet Japanese gentleman, with a mysterious past. In this strange forei...

from bookmuse56

Snow Hunters opens with North Korean twenty-five year old Yohan arriving in Brazil via a cargo ship shortly after the end of the Korean War with a business card of a Japanese tailor in hand. Thus begins the introspective telling of Yohan's journey. It is a testimony to the sparse elegant prose th...