{"product_id":"lemon-korean-pb","title":"Kwon Yeo-Sun: Lemon [2022] paperback","description":"This is not a murder story. It is the story of those left behind. \u003ci\u003eParasite\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Good Son\u003c\/i\u003e in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime. \u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2002, Kim Hae-on was killed in what became known as the High School Beauty Murder. There were two suspects: Shin Jeongjun, who had a rock-solid alibi, and Han Manu, to whom no evidence could be pinned. The case went cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventeen years pass without justice, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShifting between the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on's classmates, \u003ci\u003eLemon\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLemon\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Discovering whodunnit isn't really the point here; \u003ci\u003eLemon\u003c\/i\u003e is a subtle, often intense meditation on the after-effects of violence' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Chilling, suspenseful and disconcerting... I couldn't put it down and read deep into the night until I finished it, with my heart hammering' \u003cb\u003eFrances Cha, author of \u003ci\u003eIf I Had Your Face\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yeo-Sun, Kwon \u0026 Hong, Janet","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42622178558137,"sku":"9781800241497","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53849464471891,"sku":"XV81800241497","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/yeo-sun-kwon-hong-janet-kwon-yeo-sun-lemon-2022-paperback-9781800241497-57774331068755.jpg?v=1779811291","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/lemon-korean-pb","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}