Susan Choi

A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetime. 'Ferociously smart and full of surprises, Flashlight is thrilling to the last' — Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood 'A writer at the top of her...

A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetime. Ferociously smart and full of surprises, Flashlight is thrilling to the last – Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood A writer at the top of her...

An alchemical work that blends truth and art into a heady, addictive brew - Atlantic Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthood. They have just started their first term at a performing arts school, where the rules are made by their magnetic drama instructor. Enclosing his students in a...

Flashlight by Susan Choi is shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, presenting an astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from Japan to the USA to the North Korean regime. One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal...

A young woman is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this stunning novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Flashlight. On the run after an act of violence against the American government, twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada is drawn into caring for three younger fugitives. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a San Francisco millionaire, has become a national celebrity...

Two outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping novel of love and war, from the Booker-shortlisted author of Flashlight. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea, he will not speak at all. Then he meets...

An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the Booker shortlisted author of Flashlight. Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. He’s said to lie in the dark in his office while undergraduate women read couplets to him. He’s condemned on...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Electrifying" (People) - "Masterly" (The Guardian) - "Dramatic and memorable" (The New Yorker) - "Magic" (TIME) - "Ingenious" (The Financial Times) - "A gonzo literary performance" (Entertainment Weekly) - "Rare and splendid" (The Boston Globe) - "Remarkable" (USA Today) - "Delicious" (The New York Times) - "Book groups, meet your...

A reclusive professor unravels the choices that have defined his life in this enthralling novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Flashlight. Professor Lee, a mathematician near retirement age, would seem the last person to attract the attention of the FBI. Yet, after a star colleague is targeted by a mail bomb, even Lee's own neighbours view him with damning...