The End of August - Miri, Yu
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In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter, training to run a marathon, summons Korean shamans to connect with Lee Woo-cheol's spirit. A poetic masterpiece of historical fiction.

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In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter, training to run a marathon, summons Korean shamans to connect with Lee Woo-cheol's spirit. A poetic masterpiece of historical fiction.
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A Korean author writing in Japanese, Yu Miri has 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 theater 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.