Lemon

- Blurb -

Focusing on the unsolved murder of teenage girl, this literary crime novel offers insights into gender, class and privilege in Seoul, and marks the English-language debut for award-winning Korean author, Kwon Yeo-sun. ' A haunting literary crime story . . . Razor-sharp observations of class, gender and privilege in contemporary Korea' CosmopolitanIn the summer of 2002, nineteen-year-old Kim Hae-on was murdered 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. Seventeen 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. Told at different points in time from the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on' s classmates, Lemon is a piercing psychological portrait that takes the shape of a crime novel and is a must-read novel of 2021. ______' Jolts with its brilliance and tartness. It' s simply electric' Kyung-sook Shin, author of Please Look After Mother' A confounding masterpiece . . . One of the most profound page-turners you will ever encounter' Matthew Salesses, author of Craft in the Real World' Charming, beguiling, and unique . . . Lemon, like a great painting, makes you see the world differently' Patrick Hoffman, author of Clean Hands and Every Man a Menace