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Translated by Shanna Tan (Marigold Mind Laundry and Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop).
The feel-good Korean hit novel about the joys of small-town life.
Have you ever been on a summer holiday so good you never want to go home again?
Jebi is tired of noisy, crowded Seoul and her dull job at a photography studio in the city. When she sees a billboard on her commute showing beautiful Jeju Island, she decides to quit her job and spend a summer there. On the last day of her trip, when she's due to fly back to her real life, she loses everything: phone, credit cards, plane ticket. Wandering through a fishing village, she stumbles across a tiny photo studio.
Staying to work there, she meets and photographs a young couple who are about to get married, an elderly ex-cop haunted by questions from his past, and the Jeju haenyeos, a group of local women freedivers who gather sea urchins. The photos Jebi takes capture the magic of the island and its people.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399823470
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by Shanna Tan
- Translated by Shanna Tan
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Her Tae-Yeon won the 11th Honbul Literary Award (the largest literary prize in Korea), for her novel The Man Who Dances Flamenco, written in memory of her late father.
Her most recent book, The Fairy Godmother of the Hand Me Down World, was a Korean bestseller.More from General Fiction
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