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b>b>New York Times Book Review: Editor’s Choice br> Philadelphia Inquirer: Best Book of the Month br> World Literature Today: Notable Translation of the Year br>CrimeReads: Best International Crime Novel of the Year br>Ms. Magazine: Most Anticipated Book of the Year br> Washington Independent Review of Books: Favorite Book of the Year br>/b>br>Parasite/b> b>meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime.br> br> /b>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.br> br> 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. br> br> 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.
