According to Koreatimes news, author Sohn Won Pyung’s novel Almond has won multiple international awards, including the Japanese Booksellers’ Award. The book has sold 250,000 copies in Korea and has remained a top ten bestseller for many weeks. Almond is about a boy who struggles with the psychological trauma of losing his parents as a child and tries to cope with his emotions while growing into adulthood. The book’s emotional themes of attachment, hope, not being able to feel emotion, and trauma all allow a young adult audience to sympathize with the main character.

Because the book has been so successful in Korea, China, and other parts of the world, the book remains the top bestseller on the market. Sohn Won Pyung also wrote the screenplay for the successful 2020 film starring So Ji-Hyo and Kim Mu-Yeol. “Almond” is the first full-length novel that Sohn has published. She has since also written Seoreunui bangyeok, which received a Jeju 4.3 Peace Literary Prize for its themes on the democratization of Korea.