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_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books,Kaloor |
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100 | _aJeong,You-jeong | ||
245 | _aGOOD SON | ||
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_aLondon _bAbacus _c2018/01/01 |
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500 | _aYu-jin is a good son, a model student and a successful athlete. But one day he wakes up covered in blood. There's no sign of a break-in and there's a body downstairs. It's the body of someone who Yu-jin knows all too well. Yu-jin struggles to piece together the fragments of what he can remember from the night before. He suffers from regular seizures and blackouts. He knows he will be accused if he reports the body, but what to do instead? Faced with an unthinkable choice, Yu-jin makes an unthinkable decision. Through investigating the murder, reading diaries, and looking at his own past and childhood, Yu-jin discovers what has happened. The police descend on the suburban South Korean district in which he lives. The body of a young woman is discovered. Yu-jin has to go back, right back, to remember what happened, back to the night he lost his father and brother, and even further than that. The Good Son deals with the ultimate taboo in family life, and asks the question: how far will you go to protect your children from themselves? About the author (2018) Often called the Korean Stephen King or Raymond Chandler, You-jeong Jeong is a contemporary novelist and literary sensation in the genre of crime thrillers. In her many runaway bestsellers, she has created a unique style that combines an irresistible narrative, intricate plotting, elegant sentences, and vivid descriptive passages that blend reality and fantasy. She engrosses her readers with complex and lively characters and an exceptional intensity. Further, her profound insight into the dark side of human nature has captivated readers in both Korea and abroad. For instance, the German translation of her Seven Years of Darkness was ranked eighth on the top-ten crime novels list in Die Zeit in 2015. She received the 2007 Segye Youth Literary Award for The Spring Camp of My Life and 2009 Segye Literary Award for Shoot My Heart. Two of her bestselling novels, Seven Years of Darkness (2011) and 28 (2013), were selected as "book of the year" by major bookstores and media outlets in Korea. Her four major novels-Shoot My Heart, Seven Years of Darkness, 28, and Beautiful Demon (2016)-have been or are being translated into Chinese, French, German, Thai, and Vietnamese, and either were or are being made into films in Korea. | ||
650 | _a Psychological Fiction | ||
650 | _aPsychological thriller | ||
650 | _aMystery | ||
650 | _aSuspense | ||
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