{"product_id":"9781474623568","title":"Violets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSouth 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA story of thwarted 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JUST BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43227658027123,"sku":"9781474623568","price":110.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/81LnCXhGZtL._SL1500.jpg?v=1755610511","url":"https:\/\/readerswarehouse.us\/products\/9781474623568","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}