VIOLETS

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.

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 thwar
ted 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.