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The bus began to pull away before I had a chance to shout goodbye to Father. I think about that moment from time to time. About how long he must've stood there after the bus had left. About what he must've felt staring down that dark road, long after the bus had disappeared. About how long he must've waited before going back inside the store."--From Chapter 1Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her h...

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An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mom, centering on a woman's efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held family secrets.Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home in the countryside to take care of her father. At first, her father only appears withdrawn and fragile, an aging man, awkward but kind around his own...

Translated by Anton Hur'Mesmerising, dreamlike and prescient in its sharpness and attentiveness to the dynamics between women and the male and female gaze' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti'Darkly beautiful, VIOLETS explores the toll of abandonment and relentless marginalisation' Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face'Violets lavishes attention on the kind of person who often slips through the cracks, unseen or ignored. There is a beauty and a ...

San, a neglected young woman, experiences the violence and isolation of late twentieth-century Korean society"--

We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a girl called Namae, and they become friends until one afternoon changes everything. Following a moment of physical intimacy in a minari field, Namae violently rejects San, setting her on a troubling path of quashed desire and isolation. We next meet San, aged twenty-two, as she starts a job in a flower shop. There, we are introduced to a colourful ca...

A neglected young woman experiences the violence and isolation of contemporary Korean society, from the two million copy bestselling author of PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER