Violets / Kyung-Sook Shin ; translated by Anton Hur.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 212 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781474623551; 1474623557Subject(s): Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Teenage girls -- Fiction | Korea (South) -- Social life and customs -- FictionGenre/Form: Lesbian fiction. DDC classification: 895.735 Summary: 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. Here, 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 but also beauty in its lush, vibrant prose.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F SIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111084002045 |
Translated from the Korean.
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. Here, 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 but also beauty in its lush, vibrant prose.
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