Violets

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Kyung-Sook Shin es autora de numerosas obras de ficción y es una de las novelistas más leídas y aclamadas de Corea del Sur. Fue la primera mujer en recibir el Premio Literario Man Asia por Por favor, cuida de mamá, y también ha sido galardonada con el Premio de Literatura Manhae, el Premio de Literatura Dong-in y el Premio Literario Yi Sang, además del Premio Prix de lx{0026} x02019;Inaperçu de Francia. Por favor cuida de mamá es la primera novela de la autora que se tradujo a más de cuarenta países.