Flashlight by Susan Choi is a sprawling historical novel and family saga that was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. The story begins in 1978 with the mysterious disappearance of Serk, a Korean émigré, while on a summer trip to a coastal Japanese town with his ten-year-old daughter, Louisa.
One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.
This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk’s disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025
WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026
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