Violets av Kyung-Sook Shin

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<p><b>South Korea, 1970. </b>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>A story of thwarted desire, misogyny and erasure, <i>Violets </i>reveals the high stakes involved in one woman''s desperate search for both autonomy and attachment in an unforgiving societ