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Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, is Korean, but was born and raised in Japan; he lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her Midwestern family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne’s illegitimate son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut now it is just Anne and Louisa, Louisa and Anne, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of great loss. United, separated, and also repelled by their mutual grief, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happened to Louisa’s father?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again and again to that night by the sea,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlashlight\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003echases the shock waves of one family’s catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlashlight\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003espans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heartgripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42358785245250,"sku":"9.78179E+12","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/files\/240920418.jpg?v=1758975684"},{"product_id":"the-land-in-winter","title":"The Land in Winter - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eIn the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross the field, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He’s been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm he bought, a place where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that’s already faltering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42394715422786,"sku":null,"price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/files\/81sX5PjLy-L._SL1500.jpg?v=1755440235"},{"product_id":"flesh","title":"Flesh - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom Booker shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century’s tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London’s super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpare and penetrating, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFlesh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42430988877890,"sku":null,"price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/files\/71vRMR3c18L._SY425.jpg?v=1758104246"},{"product_id":"audition","title":"Audition - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne woman, the performance of a lifetime. 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