A review by marywahlmeierbracciano
Violets by Kyung-sook Shin

challenging dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

Following a rural upbringing filled with rejection and abandonment, San moves to Seoul to pursue work as a typist.  She instead falls into work at a flower shop, where tending to the flowers and plants brings her unexpected comfort.  But when painful memories begin to rear their ugly heads, San struggles to process the loneliness she feels, and the past and present blur into one.  Clean and bursting with symbolism, Violets is a portrait of a longing young woman drowning in a bustling city.  Shin Kyung-sook is a master of quiet tragedy. 
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