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Violets

By Kyung-sook Shin

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Violets

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We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a girl called Namae, and they become friends until one afternoon changes everything. Following a moment of physical intimacy in a minari field, Namae violently rejects San, setting her on a troubling path of quashed desire and isolation. We next meet San, aged twenty-two, as she starts a job in a flower shop. There, we are introduced to a colourful cast of characters, including the shop's mute owner, the other florist Su-ae, and the customers that include a sexually aggressive businessman and a photographer, who San develops an obsession for. Throughout, San's moment with Namae lingers in the back of her mind. A story of desire and violence about a young woman who everyone forgot, VIOLETS is a captivating and sensual read, full of tragedy and beauty. "[VIOLETS] binds a spell around the reader until the very end" Park Wanseo "I always find myself acting out the main character in my mind when I read Kyung-Sook Shin's novels. Reading VIOLETS is like she's writing a script written perfectly for me" Doona Bae, actor (Netflix's SENSE8, CLOUD ATLAS) "The story of thwarted desires and the isolated individuals that harbor them... clean prose filled with Shin's trademark rich descriptions" Korea Economic Daily
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
212
Release Date:
2022-04-14
Publication Date:
2022-04-14
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1474623557
ISBN13:
9781474623551
Weight:
228 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
214 cm
Thickness:
19 cm

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