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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Fiction, International Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Adult
ISBN: 9781405964685
Published: October 2025
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 224
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

The Rainfall Market

You Yeong-Gwang, Slin Jung

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AN UPLIFTING AND HEALING BOOK THAT ASKS - WOULD YOU TRADE YOUR LIFE FOR ANOTHER ONE?

'A warm and wondrous story [...] Gentle, affirming, and utterly transportive' Julie Long, author of The Teller of Small Fortunes

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On the first day of monsoon the old ramshackle building appears - this is The Rainfall Market.

Inside: magical bookstores, hairdressers, perfumeries - anything your heart desires.

But to enter you need a Ticket.

And to get one you must write a letter telling of your misfortune.

Lonely schoolgirl Serin dreams of a bigger, better life.

And she can't believe her luck when her letter of woe is answered with a Ticket.

Accompanied by Isha the cat, Serin enters Rainfall Market. She has just...

About the Author

You Yeong-Gwang

You Yeong-Gwang

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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Slin Jung

Slin Jung

Slin Jung is a freelance translator and interpreter. She won the LTI Korea Award for Aspiring Translators in 2014, a Commendation Prize for the Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Award in 2015, a GKL Korean Literature Translation Award in 2018, and has received LTI Korea grants for multiple translations, including The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang.

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