남의 둥지, 낯선 알 (Namui Dungji, Natseon Al) is out today, the first novel we have published in Korean. It opens 먼 제비 (Meon Jebi), a series of five. The book’s title means “Another’s Nest, a Strange Egg.”
A family in Seoul has told the same story for years: their grandfather painted a mountain under a low moon, and the painting hangs today in a museum in Paris. Nobody disputes where it is. Nobody can say how it got there. Thirty-three years of its record are blank.
Yun Jae-seong spent nine years in London building the paper trails that let wealthy buyers purchase without asking questions. He is thirty-five now, back in Seoul and working for a small organization that sends things home, reading the same kind of documents backwards. He left Korea at twenty-one, which turns out to matter as much as the London years do.
The novel opens at B1 and closes in early B2, thickening gradually across twenty-five chapters. Evidence reaches you the way it reaches him: three official documents, a legal filing, meeting minutes, a field report, an annual report with one line worth reading twice. Every chapter ends with a language note, the words that chapter used, and a page from Jae-seong’s own notebook.
Four books come after it, each set in a different Korean city, climbing from B1 toward C1.
If you have bought from us before: the Korean books are not on Amazon or Kindle Unlimited. This one is on Apple Books and Kobo, and the book page gives the length and the reading time.
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남의 둥지, 낯선 알 (Namui Dungji, Natseon Al)
먼 제비, 제1권
Seoul
Yun Jae-seong has been back in Seoul barely two months when a small Paris museum's quietest painting lands on his desk — a mountain-and-moon ink wash by a nearly forgotten Korean painter, its ownership blank for thirty years. The case takes him from a dust-choked government archive to an old man's living room, where the tea goes cold and almost nothing gets said. Every document insists the story is simple. No one in that room believes it.
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