During Japan’s colonial rule, Suhyang lives quietly in Jeju with her grandmother and younger sister. After liberation, she moves to a grand Seoul mansion her birth father received from the new regime—a house steeped in foreboding, where she senses a presence only she can see. When the Korean War begins and her father’s fortunes collapse, he marries her off to the only son of a rice-shop owner. In the unwanted marriage, Suhyang realizes her “only-son” husband is not a single man but identical triplets. By pressing the gentlest of the three, she learns the truth—her father and stepmother knew and looked the other way. Awakened by rage, she wins the brothers over one by one and, in a single day, kills and buries the tyrant father, the stepmother who urged her sale, and the abusive father-in-law. A quiet man named Masaki has been watching. Hiding his identity, he approaches Suhyang—and she discovers his secret tie to the other presence haunting the house…

Park So Hae’s debut novel Husbands traces a woman who, even through colonial oppression and war, refuses to surrender her agency. Like ‘Sunja’ in 『Pachinko』Suhyang weeps, endures, and cuts her own path—toward desire, love, and redemption in a sweeping historical saga.