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Violets
From the bestselling author of Please Look After Mother
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'Dreamy, immersive and evocative' TLS 'Darkly beautiful' Frances Cha 'Strange and gripping' Guardian Violets is the poignant tale of San, a twenty-two-year-old who finds herself alone and aimless until she takes a job at a flower shop in the bustling heart of Seoul. Haunted by the...
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Violets
A neglected young woman experiences the violence and isolation of contemporary Korean society, from the two million copy bestselling author of PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER
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'Dreamy, immersive and evocative' TLS
'Darkly beautiful' Frances Cha
'Strange and gripping' Guardian
Violets is the poignant tale of San, a twenty-two-year-old who finds herself alone and aimless until she takes a job at a flower shop in the bustling heart of Seoul.
Haunted by the memories of childhood rejection, she navigates life feeling painfully vulnerable, stifled, and uncertain. In the unforgiving climate of 1990s South Korea, she barely registers to those around her.
Throughout one transformative summer, San encounters a diverse group of people: the silent shop owner, an outspoken co-worker, demanding customers, and an enigmatic photographer from a magazine. Driven by a quiet desperation to invigorate her existence, she briefly dares to dream of forming connections in a world that often feels harsh and unyielding.
Translated by Anton HurBook Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781474623568
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 March 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Contributors:
- Translated by Anton Hur
- Translated by Anton Hur
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
Kyung-Sook Shin is one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been honored with the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, Mark of Respect Award (2012), and Ho-Am Prize for an Art (2013) as well as France's Prix de l'Inaper u and Man Asian Literary Prize (2011). She is the author of many prior works of fiction in addition to PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER, which has been published in 41 countries, and was on the New York Times bestselling list. Shin was a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 2010 to 2011. She currently lives in Seoul.
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