Here and Now

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The new novel from the bestselling author of Hunger

A pandemic has erupted overnight and swept half of the world's population. The known world has collapsed. The new world is an irrational, lawless terrain where children's livers are believed to provide immunity.

In one residential block, a pack of Seoulians break out of quarantine and into Siberia. It's an unlikely group. A former travel agent who discovers the world is much bigger than they once imagined. A mother recently separated from her husband. A small sister and her abusive father.

mute sister Joy

national identity breaks down in the face of survival

The unlikely pack are being led through the unforgiving wilderness of Siberia by Jina and Dori, two mothers going through midlife crises who somehow fall in love at the end of the world against all odds.

To the Warm Horizon shows how in a post-apocalyptic world, humans will still seek purpose, kinship, and even intimacy.

where they will begin again, sharing lipstick

A road story with a difference.

An unlikely pack of South Koreans make their way across a disease-ravaged landscape - but to what end? A dystopian novella where people reach for meaning in a world turned upside down. A journey through how people adjust, or fail to adjust, to catastrophe. Trying to find a way forward in a world turned upside down.