Violets

By Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin, "a moving delve into a lonely psyche" that follows a neglected young woman's search for human connection in contemporary Seoul (YZ Chin).San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life-painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of 1990s South Korea.Over the course of one hazy, volatile summer, San meets a curious cast of characters: the nonspeaking shop owner, a brash coworker, quiet farmers, and aggressive customers. Fueled by a quiet desperation to jump-start her life, she plunges headfirst into obsession with a passing magazine photographer.In Violets, best-selling author Kyung-Sook Shin explores misogyny, erasure, and repressed desire, as San desperately searches for both autonomy and attachment in the unforgiving reality of contemporary Korean society.

ISBN:	9781558612907
Publisher:	The Feminist Press at CUNY
Imprint:	The Feminist Press
Published date:	12 Apr 2022
DEWEY:	895.734
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20211020
Language:	English
Sales rank:	11274
Number of pages:	cm
Weight:	272g
Height:	203mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	18mm

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