By the South Korean phenomenon, author of the acclaimed The New Seoul Jelly Park Massacre

'Cho Yeeun is an insanely amazing writer' BORA CHUNG, author of CURSED BUNNY
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What do you do when something strange depends on you ...

From award-winning Korean horror sensation Cho Yeeun, an uncanny and profoundly moving tale about the beautiful obsessions and destructive delusions of love, and what it means to give a voice to the voiceless

Something is strange about Seonhyung’s uncle’s death. All that’s left of him are bones: a skull, a ribcage, and a couple of teeth - each so pristinely white it almost seems as if someone has licked them clean. Seonhyung is still reeling from the loss of her band - and the betrayal of its heavenly-voiced lead singer, Gyeongju. When she returns home for the funeral, she’s confronted by a handwritten will that bequeaths to Seonhyung her uncle’s most prized possession: a dilapidated aquatic pet store.

On the surface, the store seems like nothing but a burden, which Seonhyung reluctantly agrees to take on. Then, searching for the source of the rotting stench in the air, she stumbles upon a trap door to a secret basement where she discovers tanks full of unimaginable horrors. Among them, near death but still breath-takingly beautiful: a mermaid whose tongue has been cruelly carved from her mouth.

As she nurses the mermaid back to health, Seonhyung falls under the spell of her seductive hum, until she can only think about one thing: hearing the mermaid sing.

But there’s only one way to get the mermaid’s voice back.

Cho Yeeun is South Korea's most celebrated writer of dream-like, genre-bending stories. Thrilling and ethereal, A Mouth Full of Fins dares to tread the blurred line between our greatest dreams and our greatest nightmares.