{"product_id":"the-end-of-august-isbn-9780593542675","title":"The End of August","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poetic masterpiece that is a feat of historical fiction, epic family saga, and mind-bending story-telling acrobatics, \u003ci\u003eThe End of August\u003c\/i\u003e is a marathon of literature.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for The End of August\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Commanding... Yu’s passion for rescuing history from violence is palpable on every page.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Artful and kinetic…This has a power of its own.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Spellbinding.\" —LitHub\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Morgan Giles' translation of Yu Miri's \u003ci\u003eThe End of August \u003c\/i\u003ereads at a breathlessly swift pace despite, or because of, the painstakingly meticulous care put into every word and line. Yu's rich storytelling never loses its pace as Giles relays her depiction of the resilience of the Korean nation through the tragic consequences of colonialism that reverberate to this day.” — Anton Hur\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTokyo Ueno Station \u003c\/i\u003eand Yu Miri\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTokyo Ueno Station\u003c\/i\u003e is a dream: a chronicle of hope, loss, where we've been and where we're going. That Yu Miri could conjure so many realities simultaneously is nothing short of marvelous. The novel astounds, terrifies, and make the unseen concrete--entirely tangible and perennially effervescent, right there on the page.\" —Bryan Washington, author of \u003ci\u003eLot \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Glorious.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] relatively slim novel that packs an enormous emotional punch, thanks to Yu's gorgeous, haunting writing and Morgan Giles' wonderful translation.... Yu does a magnificent job exploring the effects of all kinds of loss on the human psyche. \u003ci\u003eTokyo Ueno Station\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning novel, and a harsh, uncompromising look at existential despair.\" —NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poetic... How Kazu comes to be homeless, and then to haunt the park, is what keeps us reading, trying to understand the tragedy of this ghostly everyman. Deftly translated by Morgan Giles... It is an urgent reminder of the radical divide between rich and poor in postwar Japan.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spare, indelible.\" —O, the Oprah magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A novel of the world we all share — not what we expect from a ghost story but frightening all the same.\" —Rumaan Alam, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA Korean author writing in Japanese, \u003cb\u003eYu Miri\u003c\/b\u003e has over twenty books to her name. She received Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, and her novel \u003ci\u003eTokyo Ueno Station\u003c\/i\u003e 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 theater space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorgan Giles\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator. Her translation of Yu Miri's \u003ci\u003eTokyo Ueno Station\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2020 National Book award for Translated Literature. She lives in London.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300316795109,"sku":"NP9780593542675","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593542675.jpg?v=1767739177","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-end-of-august-isbn-9780593542675","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}