Author: You Yeong-gwang
Translated by: Slin Jung
Publisher: Penguin, expected Nov 2024
Original title: 비가 오면 열리는 상점, 2023
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A rumour surrounds an old house. Send a letter and if it’s chosen a mysterious ticket will be delivered to you.
No one is more surprised than Serin when she receives a ticket inviting her to a market that opens once a year when it rains.
Here she’s offered to swap her life for another. A better one.
The problem? She has one week to find the perfect life and true happiness, or she’ll be trapped inside the market forever.
Accompanied by Isha the cat, Serin searches through bookstores, hair salons and perfumeries before time runs out.
All while a shadow follows quietly behind them…
You Yeong-Gwang was born in Seongnam in 1984. He wrote this story during breaks while delivering food for a living. He felt truly happy while writing this story and wishes for all readers to find healing and courage through it so that they may go out and find their own happiness.
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