Haruki's New Novel 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' Quickly Ranks No. 1

Haruki Murakami's new full-length novel, "The City and Its Uncertain Walls," released after six years, topped the Yes24 comprehensive bestseller list for the fifth week of August through pre-orders alone. This novel, completed 43 years after Murakami first published in the literary magazine "Munhakgye" in 1980, is praised for containing all of Murakami's imagination and the world he has firmly built. According to Yes24, the gender ratio of buyers was nearly even, with approximately 47% male and 53% female.

In second place was "Seino's Teachings," and third place was taken by the new volume of the action manga series "Jujutsu Kaisen 23 Double Special Edition." Fourth place went to "The Power to Read 1%," which contains investment know-how from capital market analyst Mer, and fifth place was "Choi Minjun's Son Coaching Encyclopedia," a temperament-tailored son-rearing method by Choi Minjun, head of the 700,000-subscriber YouTube channel "Adele TV." Former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk's essay "Dike's Tears" ranked sixth.

At Kyobo Bookstore, Mer's "The Power to Read 1%" ranked first overall. "Seino's Teachings," which had held the top spot for 23 weeks, dropped to second place. Both authors share the commonality of using pen names. Just as the author of "Seino's Teachings" gained attention from underground experts under the pen name "Seino," the author of "The Power to Read 1%" built a fandom by delivering global economic trends and investment insights through the pen name "Mer Blog."

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