Violets
Editorial ORION FICTION
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher ORION FICTION
- ISBN13 9781474623568
- ISBN10 1474623565
- Type Book
- Pages 224
- Published 2024
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
English LiteratureViolets
Editorial ORION FICTION
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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.