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To the Moon
- Author
- Jang Ryujin
- Narrator
- Rosa Escoda
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 19 June 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours 8 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 3.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner.
In Seoul, three young women meet while working mundane desk jobs at a confectionary manufacturer. They become fast friends, taking their conversations out of the group chat as they bond over their ‘average’ employee report cards, the incompetence of their male team leader and a mutual longing for financial freedom amid mediocre raises.
Eun-sang, the eldest of the group, is always looking for ways to earn extra money, but faces trouble at work after she opens a mini mart at her desk.
Jisong, the youngest, dreams of a perfect romance with her Taiwanese boyfriend and spends her low salary on trips to Taipei.
Meanwhile, Dahae searches endlessly for a better apartment – albeit one she can actually afford.
One day over lunch, Eun-sang announces a plan to make enough money to quit her job, by investing her life’s savings in cryptocurrency. What’s more, she thinks the others should join her. All they need to do, she says, is hold on tight and wait for the price to skyrocket . . . to the moon. But as the market begins to fluctuate and spiral out of their control, the fate of their friendships – and their futures – soon hangs in the balance.
What readers are saying:
‘A propulsive story that kept me on the razor wire of anxious and hopeful’
‘This book was like no other’
‘Bittersweet and deeply relatable ... A must-read’
Critics Review
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With its likeable trio, this zeitgeisty rags-to-riches tale is gently diverting, quietly and pleasingly subverting the narrative arc you might expect
Daily Mail
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Their wild ride through financial turmoil demonstrates that the hopes, anxieties and issues of millennials are universal
Financial Times
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This modern-day fairy tale is centred on a very modern-day premise: the rollercoaster world of cryptocurrency
Marie Clare
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To the Moon is an offbeat slice-of-life novel that welds the low-key eccentricity and camaraderie, frustration and routine of office work to the much more dramatic absurdity and arbitrariness of high-risk speculation. Jang’s relatable tale of workplace friendship transforms into a financial rollercoaster, shining absurd light on how much more money capital makes than workers do
Sydney Morning Herald
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Once I started reading, I couldn’t stop ... A page-turner packed with questions that linger stubbornly long after
Chung Serang, author of SCHOOL NURSE AHN EUNYOUNG
User Reviews
Book 3.0
Narration 4.0
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3.0 4.0
Fun story. I liked the ending despite being quite controversial.
Narration was good and kept me interested in the story.alessiadelvy 2025-07-22
Details
- Author
- Jang Ryujin
- Narrator
- Rosa Escoda
- Duration
- 7 hours 8 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 June 2025
- ISBN
- 9781526685742
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction in translation, Contemporary lifestyle fiction
- Rating
- 3.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents To the Moon by Jang Ryujin, read by Rosa Escoda.The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner.In Seoul, three young women meet while working mundane desk jobs at a confectionary manufacturer. They become fast friends, taking their conversations out of the group chat as they bond over their ‘average’ employee report cards, the incompetence of their male team leader and a mutual longing for financial freedom amid mediocre raises.Eun-sang, the eldest of the group, is always looking for ways to earn extra money, but faces trouble at work after she opens a mini mart at her desk. Jisong, the youngest, dreams of a perfect romance with her Taiwanese boyfriend and spends her low salary on trips to Taipei. Meanwhile, Dahae searches endlessly for a better apartment – albeit one she can actually afford.One day over lunch, Eun-sang announces a plan to make enough money to quit her job, by investing her life’s savings in cryptocurrency. What’s more, she thinks the others should join her. All they need to do, she says, is hold on tight and wait for the price to skyrocket . . . to the moon. But as the market begins to fluctuate and spiral out of their control, the fate of their friendships – and their futures – soon hangs in the balance.What readers are saying:‘A propulsive story that kept me on the razor wire of anxious and hopeful’‘This book was like no other’‘Bittersweet and deeply relatable ... A must-read’
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