Violets - From the bestselling author of Please Look After Mother (Paperback)

South Korea, 1970. San is a lonely child, ostracised from her community. She soon finds a friend in a girl called Namae, until one afternoon changes everything. Following a moment of intimacy in a minari field, Namae violently rejects San, setting her on a troubling path. We next meet San, aged twenty-two, when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city centre. Over the course of one hazy, volatile summer, San is introduced to a curious cast of characters - the mute shop owner, a brash co-worker, kind farmers and aggressive customers - and fuelled by a quiet desperation to jump-start her life, she plunges headfirst into obsession with a passing magazine photographer. Throughout it all, San's moment with Namae continues to linger in the back of her mind. A story of thwarted desire, misogyny and erasure, Violets reveals the high stakes involved in one woman's desperate search for both autonomy and attachment in an unforgiving society.

General

Imprint:	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2024
Authors:	Kyung-Sook Shin
Translators:	Anton Hur
Dimensions:	198 x 129mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-4746-2356-8
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-4746-2356-5
Barcode:	9781474623568

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