Violets by Kyung-sook Shin, translated by Anton Hur [in Booklist]
24 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW Mention of Wim Wenders’ Buena Vista Social Club sets this novel in 1999, when Oh San turns 23 that summer. She left her childhood village years ago, haunted by the memory of a best friendship’s wrenching cleaving. After being repeatedly abandoned by her mother,...