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In The Mountain, Paul Yoon shows his understated, ethereal, and strikingly observant style with six thematically connected stories, occurring across several continents and time periods and populated with people who are connected by their distressing pasts, recently vagrant lives, and quests for solace in their futures. Though they can be found in their own particular worlds (from a sanatorium in the Hudson Valley for an inn in the Russian far east), these are united by the battle to reconcile their distressing pasts in the wake of assault, big and small, spiritual and corporeal. A morphine-addicted nurse wanders through the decimated French countryside searching for goal; a dissatisfied partner sporadically takes a coach across Spain with a much young man in the wake of a building explosion; a lost young female emigrates from Korea to Shanghai, where she aimlessly works in a camera sweatshop, striving fruitlessly to outrun the ghosts of her past. Though each tale is particular from others, his restrained tone of voice and perceptive observations about assault - to your body, the panorama, and, inevitably, the human heart and soul - weaves throughout this collection as a whole, making The Mountain a memorable listen.
