"In David Hoon Kim's debut novel, in a strangely distorted Paris, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved"-- Provided by publisher.

When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she's already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik, an aspiring translator, these remnants propel him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her doppelgänger, reappears: in line at the Louvre, on street corners and subway platforms, and on the dissection table of a group of young medical students. Henrik's inquiry drives him into the shadowy corners of his past, and mounts to a charged intimacy shared with his best friend's precocious daughter, who may be haunted herself. -- adapted from jacket