Mirinae Lee

Mirinae Lee's debut 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster is an audacious multigenerational epic that follows a 100-year-old Korean woman reflecting on eight extraordinary lives she's witnessed — from Japanese colonial rule through the Korean War to the modern tech boom. Each "life" is a different story, a different voice, and a different window into Korea's tumultuous century.

The novel's structure is as inventive as its scope is ambitious — Lee weaves historical fiction, personal memoir, and social commentary into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation. She writes with the confidence of a storyteller who trusts that the best way to understand a country is through the lives of its people, and her debut marks the arrival of a bold new voice in Korean literature.