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Copyright © 2013 by Paul Yoon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Yoon, Paul.

Snow hunters : a novel / Paul Yoon. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

pp. cm.

1. Korean War, 1950–1953—Veterans—Fiction. 2. Refugees—Korea (North)—Fiction. 3. Brazil—Emigration and immigration—Korea (North) 4. Loneliness—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3625.O54S66 2013

813′.6—dc23   2012048365

ISBN 978-1-4767-1481-3

ISBN 978-1-4767-1483-7 (ebook)

Contents

Epigraph

Part I

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Part II

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Part III

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Acknowledgments

Reading Group Guide

About Paul Yoon

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