Later, she stands in the doorway of his room and watches as he draws a picture of a woman, then blacks out the drawing with a blob of ink. Kerrand tells the narrator that he is a comic book artist. They have a conversation, and the narrator tells Kerrand she attended university in Seoul, where she studied French and Korean literature. The next day, the narrator sees Kerrand on the beach. The narrator replies that she and her boyfriend, Jun-oh, will get engaged soon. The following night, the narrator sleeps at her mother's house, and her mother chastises her for not yet being married. That night, Kerrand does not come to the guest house for dinner, which the narrator always prepares. The narrator notes that people in Sokcho gossip about her because her father was a Frenchman who seduced her mother and abandoned her. After checking Kerrand in, the narrator goes to the fish market where her mother works. It is winter, so the beach resort city is largely empty. The narrator checks in a guest, an older Frenchman named Yan Kerrand from Normandy, and tells him about local attractions. Winter in Sokcho is narrated by an unnamed 24-year-old woman who lives and works at a guest house in the resort city of Sokcho on South Korea's border with North Korea. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Dusapin, Elisa Shua.
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