Snowglobe
In a world frozen into permanent winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled dome of Snowglobe stay warm, and they earn that warmth by living their lives on a 24-hour reality broadcast for the freezing masses outside who labor at power plants to keep Snowglobe lit. Chobahm has spent her life watching her favorite Snowglobe show, Goh Around, starring Goh Haeri. When Haeri dies, Chobahm is recruited to take her place, and life inside the dome turns out to be nothing like the broadcast. Park's debut, translated from Korean by Joungmin Lee Comfort, opens the Snowglobe Duology.
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A girl from a frozen wasteland is recruited to take the place of a dead reality-TV star inside the climate-controlled dome that broadcasts the only warmth left on earth.
Snowglobe was written by Soyoung Park and originally published in Korean in 2020. The English translation by Joungmin Lee Comfort was released in 2024 by Harper Voyager. It is the first book in a planned duology.
Yes. Snowglobe is YA dystopian sci-fi, suitable for readers 13 and up. The premise of a single warm city under a dome where everyone else is frozen sets up Korean Squid Game-style social commentary.
Snowglobe is 384 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Snowglobe takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
Snowglobe is a standalone novel by Soyoung Park, not part of a series.
Snowglobe is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
