Teddy Bears Don't Die

KOREA NATIONAL BESTSELLER. 5 WEEKS IN THE YES24 TOP-100.

From the winner of the Grand Prix “KyoBo MunGo,” the largest Korean book network.

A darkly whimsical yet surprisingly uplifting supernatural thriller with King-like motifs.

Hwа-yеon’s mother died when the girl was fourteen: a mass murderer poisoned the residents of the apartment complex “Nature Views.” He added poison to tteok—sticky rice dumplings.

An autopsy showed that the woman died the same way as all the other victims. But the daughter immediately understood it was not true: her mother had a terrible allergy to tteok, and she would never, under any circumstances, have eaten it...

Three years passed. Hwа-yеon’s obsession with solving her mother’s death didn’t go away. For the sake of survival, the orphaned girl got involved with crime—and that almost cost her her life.

She would have gone after her mother, if not for…

A TATTERED TEDDY BEAR… WITH AN AXE.

A smiling bear—once mega-popular and now forgotten as a toy—wants to understand why it suddenly ended up alive.

The two form a strange alliance to help each other. But the teddy bear hides something very important from the girl—something directly about her...

A NOVEL TRANSLATED FROM KOREAN.