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Mourning her twin's death, a young woman leaves Rome for Shanghai and befriends a mysterious girl with a turbulent past and the pair discover a new dimension where the citizens practice extreme erotic rituals.

"A young woman living in a rigid, repressive society discovers dark powers within herself, with terrifying and far-reaching consequences, in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle...

A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world's center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE •“[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.”—Entertainment Weekly “...