Join Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted author Susan Choi in conversation about her sweeping novel Flashlight.
Through vivid storytelling that spans continents and decades, Choi unravels the mystery of a father’s disappearance and the reverberations it has on his family’s life across Japan, Korea and the United States. This richly layered story explores memory, identity, loss and the unseen forces of history that shape who we are and how we remember.
Hosted by Claire Nichols (ABC Radio National’s The Book Show)
This session is being recorded live for ABC Book Show.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 – The 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
10 May
2026
Melbourne, VIC
Susan Choi: Flashlight
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12 May
2026
Canberra, ACT
Night of the Bookers: David Szalay and Susan Choi
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17 May
2026
Margaret River, WA
Plotting Conflict with Susan Choi
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19 May
2026
Brunswick Heads, NSW
Susan Choi In Conversation with Mick O'Regan
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22 May
2026
Eveleigh, NSW
Susan Choi: Flashlight
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22 May
2026
Eveleigh, NSW
State of the Art: The Booker Prize
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24 May
2026
Eveleigh, NSW
Family Secrets: Stories of the beauty and burdens families share
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