# Violets

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- Book: [Violets](https://www.bookquiver.com/shin-kyung-sook/violets) ([Violets.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/shin-kyung-sook/violets.md))
- Authors: [Kyung-sook Shin](https://www.bookquiver.com/shin-kyung-sook)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7462-357-5
- Published: 2022-04-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Dreamy, immersive and evocative' TLS 'Darkly beautiful' Frances Cha 'Strange and gripping' Guardian San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city centre. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life - painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of 1990s South Korea. But over the course of one summer, San meets a curious cast of characters: the nonspeaking shop owner, a brash co-worker, aggressive customers and an enigmatic magazine photographer. Fuelled by a quiet desperation to jump-start her life, she dares, briefly, to dream of connection in an unforgiving world. Translated by Anton Hur