The End of August: A Novel

Category: Book
Translated By: Giles, Morgan
By (author): Miri, Yu
Subject:  FICTION / Family Life / General
  FICTION / General
  FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical
  FICTION / World Literature / Japan
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: August 2023
Format: Book-hardcover
Pages: 720
Size: 9.25in x 6.12in x 1.43in
Our Price:
$ 48.00
Availability:
Available: 1 Aug 2023

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From The Publisher*From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation.

In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag.

Nearly a century later, his granddaughter is living in Japan and training to run a marathon herself. She summons Korean shamans to hold an intense, transcendent ritual to connect with Lee Woo-cheol. When his ghost appears, alongside those of his brother Lee Woo-Gun, and their young neighbor, who was forced to become a comfort woman to Japanese soldiers stationed in China during World War II, she must uncover their stories to free their souls. What she discovers is at the heart of this sweeping, majestic novel about a family that endured death, love, betrayal, war, political upheaval, and ghosts, both vengeful and wistful.

A poetic masterpiece that is a feat of historical fiction, epic family saga, and mind-bending story-telling acrobatics, The End of August is a marathon of literature.
Biographical NoteA Korean author writing in Japanese, Yu Miri has with over twenty books to her name. She received Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, and her novel Tokyo Ueno Station won the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature. After the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima, she relocated there and has opened a bookstore and theatre space. 

Morgan Giles is a literary translator. Her translation of Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station won the 2020 National Book award for Translated Literature. She lives in London.