The Secret of the Green Apples: K-Vampire Awakens in Seoul (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798249115838)

"Fantasy is not merely a refuge of escape.
It is a path to cleansing-
and a gateway to a new world."

*A KPIPA Translation Grant Recipient
(under Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism)
**Winner of the Naver Web Novel
Challenge League (No. 1

In the narrow, half-lit streets of Seoul, vampires pass among humans without a trace.

Pascal, a vampire born in Normandy two and a half centuries ago, has followed the slow drift of history into the present city. Unlike his kind, he is drawn not to blood but to human frailty-its warmth, its impermanence, its quiet courage. What binds him is not hunger, but memory.

The world already knows its apples.
The red apple of Adam and Eve, heavy with desire and loss.
The silver apple of Steve Jobs, polished with wealth and solitude.

But the green apple carried by Pascal and his companions belongs to another order entirely.

It is unripe. It resists sweetness.
It does not tempt, nor does it promise mastery.
It asks only to be held, and shared.

At the boundary between the human world and the vampire realm stands Minju, a high school girl who becomes a living bridge between the two. Through her quiet courage and unexpected agency, she brings back to human society the truths and forms of love that modern civilization has forgotten. Her presence guides the novel forward, infusing it with mystery and gentle revelation.

In this story, the green apple becomes a vessel for unfinished truths, for memories that refuse to settle, for a form of love that cannot mature without breaking. It binds a small community of immortals who, despite endless time, remain exposed to longing and doubt.

The Secret of Green Apples is not a tale of power or conquest. It is a quiet, urban elegy-an exploration of immortality as burden, empathy as risk, and humanity as something one chooses, again and again, even when time has lost its meaning.

For readers drawn to literary urban fantasy, philosophical vampire fiction, and stories where eternity does not absolve suffering, but deepens it.