Final Death of Namjoo Han: A Novel

From the author of Ocean’s Godori and Teo’s Durumi comes a standalone contemporary fantasy set in a Korean bathhouse afterlife, following a resident who won’t let anything—even her own deaths—stop her from trying to escape.

Namjoo Han is on a roll: she’s died over a hundred times and isn’t looking to slow down anytime soon. She’s determined to break out of Sonamu, a circle of the afterlife that’s a sprawling Korean bathhouse, because she has unfinished business in the above-world. But Sonamu has been intricately designed to keep people in, and it doles painful deaths to anyone who challenges its labyrinth.

Enlisting the help of other Sonamu residents, who have shadowed pasts of their own, and the circle’s enigmatic new grim reaper, Namjoo soon discovers that the key to getting out may require far more than evading deadly traps, solving elaborate puzzles, and slaying mythological beasts.

Inspired by the video game Hades, and with elements of Spirited Away and Dante’s Inferno, The Final Death of Namjoo Han will transport readers to hell and back as Namjoo tries to outplay death itself.