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Lemon

Lemon
Author
Kwon Yeo-sun
Co-Author
-
Translator
Janet Hong
Publisher
OTHER PRESS
Published Year
2021
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
레몬
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Remon
ISBN
9781635420883
Page
160
Volume
-
Kwon Yeo-sun
  • Kwon Yeo-sun
  • Birth : 1965 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Yeo-sun
  • Family Name : Kwon
  • Korean Name : 권여선
  • ISNI : 0000000403531499
  • Works : 14
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 813 권여선 레-홍 LTI Korea Library Available - -
Published Year Publisher Country Vendor
2022 W F Howes UNITED KINGDOM OverDrive
Descriptions
  • English(English)

NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED READ OF THE YEAR BY MS. MAGAZINE

Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime.
 
In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, eighteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High School Beauty Murder. Two suspects quickly emerge: rich kid Shin Jeongjun, whose car Hae-on was last seen in, and delivery boy Han Manu, who witnessed her there just a few hours before her death. But when Jeongjun’s alibi checks out, and no evidence can be pinned on Manu, the case goes cold.
 
Seventeen years pass without any resolution for those close to Hae-on, and the grief and uncertainty take a cruel toll on her younger sister, Da-on, in particular. Unable to move on with her life, Da-on tries in her own twisted way to recover some of what she’s lost, ultimately setting out to find the truth of what happened. 
 
Shifting between the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on’s classmates struck in different ways by her otherworldly beauty, Lemon ostensibly takes the shape of a crime novel. But identifying the perpetrator is not the main objective here: Kwon Yeo-sun uses this well-worn form to craft a searing, timely exploration of privilege, jealousy, trauma, and how we live with the wrongs we have endured and inflicted in turn.

Source : https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676051/lemon-by-yeo-sun-kwon/