Knihy od: Kyung-Sook Shin

From Kyung-Sook Shin, the internationally bestselling author of Please Look After Mom, comes an intimate and deeply moving novel about grief, reconciliation, and uncovering long-held family secrets. Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon returns to her childhood home in the Korean countryside to care for her...

When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they...

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...