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Violets : From the bestselling author of Please Look After Mother, Hardback Book

Violets : From the bestselling author of Please Look After Mother Hardback

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Translated by Anton Hur'Violets lavishes attention on the kind of person who often slips through the cracks, unseen or ignored.

There is a beauty and a bravery in speaking for small lives' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like YouSouth 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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