Violets : From the bestselling author of Please Look After Mother Paperback / softback
by Kyung-Sook Shin
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:14/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781474623568
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:14/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474623568