Holy Boy
$23.99
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2026
Summary
Yosep was the only thing in the world, and Yosep’s pain was the world’s pain …
Yosep is the passion of everyone’s dreams. An impossibly beautiful K-Pop idol who inspires religious mania among his millions of fans, he seems so perfect he might not be of this world at all. Sacred, angelic: a Holy Boy.
His devoted followers come to find companionship in their shared obsession. From adoring fans Mihee and Nami, Heeae, who has a mysterious connection to Yosep’s past, to Ahnna, the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035076437 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035076438 |
| Author: | Lee Heejoo, Joheun Lee |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 139mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
A K-Pop version of Stephen King * The Times *
Terrific … Lee Heejoo does a wonderful job creating an unhinged, febrile tension and ramping up the sense of foreboding * The Guardian *
Simmering … eerie … Holy Boy is a biting investigation into what it means to be a lonely woman in the world, and a look into the lengths the human mind will take to invent beauty in dark places – The Cold Magazine
About The Author
Lee Heejoo
Lee Heejoo was born in Seoul in 1992 and graduated from the Korean literature department at Chung-Ang University. She started her writing career winning the Munhakdongne University Novel Award with her debut Phantom Limb Pain in 2016. She is also the author of the Love World series, novel Holy Boy, and the short story “Mayumi”. Holy Boy is her first novel translated into English.
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