Flashlight (novel)
2025 book jacket | |
| Author | Susan Choi |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Eunice Wong |
| Subject | Korean and Asian American fiction |
| Genre | Literary realism, Historical fiction |
| Set in | 1978 to the 2000s in Japan, Korea, United States |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | June 3, 2025 |
| Publication place | United States, Great Britain |
| Media type | Print, eBook, Audio |
| Pages | 464 |
| Awards | Shortlisted for Booker Prize |
| ISBN | 9780374616373 |
| OCLC | 1458442226 |
| 813.54 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.H584 F54 2025 |
| Website | us |
| LCCN 2024-53346 | |
Flashlight is a 2025 Susan Choi novel that was originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States and Jonathan Cape in Great Britain. The circumstance of a Korean father in 1978, presumably washed out to sea while walking near the breakwater on the beach, and the family's grief, opens the novel to a story that "spans decades, and four generations" Flashlight was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.