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product_id: 355843253
title: "Violets"
brand: "kyung-sook shinanton hur"
price: "3844F"
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# Violets

**Brand:** kyung-sook shinanton hur
**Price:** 3844F
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- **What is this?** Violets by kyung-sook shinanton hur
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## Description

Violets

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## Customer Reviews

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    Lovely, quiet translated Korean book
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 16, 2022*

I chose to read this at least partly because Anton Hur was the translator and he seems like a great translator (twice longlisted for this year’s Booker International). This was a really good book and I will be exploring more of Kyung-Sook Shin’s English backlist (though I believe this was actually published earlier in Korean).The first two words that come to mind when I think of this book are quiet and melancholy. Within the first couple of chapters, I worried that this would be too slow for me and that I wouldn’t be engaged enough to want to pick it back up. But once the narrator, San, met her coworker Su-ae, the story really picked up for me and I finished most of it in one day.This story is really one of loneliness. San has not been loved in the way she has deserved, both by her mother and by friends. She experienced childhood rejection and this has shaped her interactions as a young adult. She hesitates to be vulnerable and really let anyone into her life.There is content that is difficult in this and the quiet nature of the story will not be something for everyone, but I think it is definitely worth picking up if that appeals to you.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A quiet kind of loneliness
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 25, 2022*

Violets is about loneliness, but not in the ways I’d imagined heading into it. The loneliness here isn’t so much a sudden downpour, but a summer rain that’s transformed into a thunderstorm since you last looked out the window. As I watched Kyung-Sook Shin’s Oh San meander through days of working in a flower shop, her cloudy thoughts and monotonous actions somehow sharpen in emotional intensity—an image of a woman caught up in an obsessive desire that dulls the senses and numbs the heart of our protagonist as its venom creeps up her roots. While this might not be a great match for a reader interested in a dynamic plot, if you're interested in a sojourn through the lush landscape of one woman's life, this is a fantastic choice.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Splendour in the Minari...
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 25, 2022*

We meet a lost, emotionally fragile young woman, who lives for a singular love she experienced long ago on an empty summer afternoon, who becomes possessed by an all consuming obsession with a man she barely knows.  Hauntingly spare.  The prose is at once lyric and restrained, almost utilitarian, and everywhere are plants: leaves, stems, bark and blossoms, changing with the seasons.  Well worth reading.

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