Paul Yoon. (2017). The Mountain: Stories. S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books.

Paul Yoon. 2017. The Mountain: Stories. S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books.

Paul Yoon, The Mountain: Stories. S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books, 2017.

Paul Yoon. The Mountain: Stories. S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books, 2017.

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   • bioText: Paul Yoon is the author of four previous works of fiction: Once the Shore, which was a New York Times Notable Book; Snow Hunters, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award; The Mountain, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year; and Run Me to Earth, which was one of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York. .
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In "a spectacular display of intelligence and feeling" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Paul Yoon's collection of short stories ranges throughout the world—from the Hudson Valley to the Russian Far East—across periods of time after World War II, hailed as a "genuine work of art...tough and elegant and true" (The Boston Globe).
In The Mountain, award-winning and acclaimed author Paul Yoon reveals his subtle, ethereal, and strikingly observant style with six thematically linked stories, taking place across several continents and time periods and populated with characters who are connected by their traumatic pasts, newly vagrant lives, and quests for solace in their futures. Though they exist in their own distinct worlds (from a sanatorium in the Hudson Valley to an inn in the Russian far east) they are united by the struggle to reconcile their traumatic pasts in the wake of violence, big and small, spiritual and corporeal. A morphine-addicted nurse wanders through the decimated French countryside in search of purpose; a dissatisfied wife sporadically takes a train across Spain with a much younger man in the wake of a building explosion; a lost young woman emigrates from Korea to Shanghai, where she aimlessly works in a camera sweat shop, trying fruitlessly to outrun the ghosts of her past.

In this "fantastic collection" (Los Angeles Times), "Paul Yoon's dazzling use of wordplay, pacing, and the quiet authenticity of his characters...makes him one of the most evocative writers working today" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). With The Mountain, "Yoon proves himself a literary alchemist, transforming tragedy into beauty with deft reminders of our universal connections...Joining such luminaries as Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Díaz, and Alice Munro, Yoon has undoubtedly earned membership in the exclusive coterie of today's finest writers of the short form" (Library Journal, starred review).

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     Starred review from June 19, 2017
     The second collection from Yoon (Once the Shore) is composed of six quiet, precisely told short stories bound by the longing for meaning and connection embodied by its mostly migrant protagonists, each of whom has suffered either direct or indirect trauma from wars fought by previous generations. These stories span multiple continents and time periods to arrive at human truths about how greatly our lives are affected and influenced by our shared histories. In “A Willow and the Moon,” a man returns after serving in World War II to an abandoned sanatorium in the Hudson Valley where his mother had volunteered when he was a child, ultimately seeking answers to the mysteries of his family’s past. In “Still a Fire,” a young man named Mikel, living in the shantytowns of northern France in the destruction left behind after World War II, suffers a terrible tragedy and is cared for by a morphine-addicted nurse on her own search for meaning after having served with the Red Cross during the war years. And in the title story, a bleakly futuristic vision of East Asia, a young woman returns home to China from Korea, working in a sweatshop producing cameras while also reckoning with her own traumatic past and the devastation it wreaks in the present. These characters are often foreign in some way to the places in which they find themselves, and Yoon expertly interrogates the meaning of nationhood and the universality of the migrant experience. Most often the stories are structured as montages of inner experience; moments of connection are the sparks that ignite these otherwise meditative, reflective narratives. The result is a spectacular display of intelligence and feeling. Agent: Bill Clegg, the Clegg Agency.

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     Starred review from June 15, 2017
     Tender, tinder-dry stories about lonely people making their ways through this life.Yoon (Snow Hunters, 2013, etc.) created a minimalist story of astonishing austerity in his debut novel and largely continues in that vein with his new collection of sad stories. In the opener, "A Willow and the Moon," an orphaned woman who grew up in a sanitarium in the Hudson Valley tells the story of her coming-of-age, her father's abandonment of her, and a secret her mother nearly took to the grave. "Still a Fire" is a dual portrait of Mikel, a young man trying to survive in a European shantytown just after World War II, and Karine, the morphine-addicted nurse he meets after he is injured by a stray land mine. In "Galicia," devoted wife Antje temporarily and impulsively leaves her husband to venture through the Iberian Peninsula with Felix, a handsome young man she meets on a train platform. "Vladivostok Station" is set in Russia and follows Misha, a young man who meets a childhood friend and subsequently reconnects with his father. In the title story, a young Chinese woman named Faye is persuaded by a stranger to return home to Shanghai, with very mixed results. In the finale, "Milner Field," we get another travelogue about a divorcee and his beloved daughter, but one that mixes in tiny, heartbreaking moments of mortal tragedy. Yoon's stories are never melodramatic; most of the time nothing much happens, really. But it's rare to find a writer this patient, one willing to let the stories breathe and play out in their own time. Despite his literary austerity, Yoon's dazzling use of wordplay, pacing, and the quiet authenticity of his characters to instill emotion in his audience makes him one of the most evocative writers working today. Six little mysteries that quietly capture the breadth of the human experience.

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     Loss and longing cause the men and women in Yoon's (Once the Shore; Snow Hunters) second collection to move, and often keep moving, sometimes in search of sanctuary, other times seeking escape. A doctor returns from war to his childhood home where his mother died; damaged strangers briefly share comfort; the loss of a baby disintegrates a couple's marriage; childhood friends become uncertain of their relationship as adults; an international migrant searches for connection; and a father devotedly follows his peripatetic daughter through the decades. Intertwined with recurring images of adversity and trauma--lost limbs, overwhelming deprivation, irreparable disconnects--are moments of purest joy. Hands tenderly hold another's face, a father's discovery of a missive scribbled in the margins of an already read book sent by his prodigal child. Crisscrossing the globe from New York's Hudson River to Shanghai, Sakhalin Island, Incheon, rural England, and Spain, Yoon proves himself a literary alchemist, transforming tragedy into beauty with deft reminders of our universal connections. VERDICT Joining such luminaries as Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, and Alice Munro, Yoon has undoubtedly earned membership in the exclusive coterie of today's finest writers of the short form. [See Prepub Alert, 2/27/17.]--Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Yoon's Once the Shore was a New York Times Notable Book and NPR Best Debut that won its author National Book Foundation 5 under 35 status, while Snow Hunters won the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. So smart readers will want this linked collection of short stories featuring characters worldwide left rootless and uncertain by their painful pasts, like the morphine-addicted nurse who stumbles through a ruined French countryside, looking for purpose.

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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