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BOOKS MADE WITH KEEPER

Open one and read it

Each of these is a finished book belonging to a real family, posted with their permission, with some names and details changed. Some you can read cover to cover, others a few pages.

Cover art: first light over a harbour on Yeongdo, a single fishing boat already out on the water
A Bright Name

The Light in a Name

Kim Mi-young

A Bright Name

Kim Mi-young, born 1948 in Busan

Eleven conversations with Keeper. 5 of its 13 chapters can be read here in full, 22 pages, in Korean or English.

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The printed front cover of Hanwoomul: a watercolour of a thatched village at dusk in cherry-blossom season, children running in a schoolyard, and a stone well at the end of the lane

한우물

Choi Ju-ho, born 1930

Twelve conversations with Keeper. Nine pages of the finished book, photographed with its watercolours and typesetting just as they came off the press.

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The printed front cover of Where the Apricots Fell: an oil painting of three apricots fallen on bare earth, one split open to its stone

Where the Apricots Fell

Lee Ok-sun, a life of ninety-three years

88 pages, with Korean and English side by side on every page. Four of its pages are here, exactly as printed.

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The next one

The next one goes up when the next family says yes.

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