Plants, shop
Korean Title: 식물, 상점
Author: Kang Min -young
Publisher: Hankyoreh Publishing
ISBN: 9791172130657
272 page /110 * 188 mm
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About This Book
This is... a place that kills, right?
The quiet choice of women trying to protect themselves in a harmful world
. Author Kang Min-young, who began her literary career by winning the 2020 Jaum & Moeum Short Novel Award, has returned to readers with her new suspense-filled full-length novel, *The Plant, Shop*. Since her debut, which was praised as a story that evokes the most trustworthy sentences (critic Noh Tae-hoon), the audacity of a newcomer (critic So Young-hyun), a writer who knows how to weave a world with precise sentences (novelist Ahn Bo-yoon), and a desire to show it to others immediately (novelist Lee Jong-san), the author has consistently shown her own unique path. Now, the gaze of the author has finally landed on a shop filled with secrets. The authors narrative, which sensitively reveals the 불안한 lives of the times while rescuing isolated women, remains consistent, but now advances to an unprecedented scale.
*The Plant, Shop* has become a local hotspot thanks to its characteristic calm and mysterious sensibility. Choi Yu-hee is the female owner who runs this rather unique shop housed in a renovated old building. Both the shop and the owner are delicate and beautiful. However, late at night when the shop closes, Yu-hee quietly heads to the yard with a hoe and a shovel. Sometimes she buries finely ground objects, and other times chunks cut by a saw, in the soil.
A man approaches Yu-hee, who had closed her heart after several failed relationships. Yu-hee harbors hope for a brief moment, but eventually realizes that the man intends to use her. From his disrespectful treatment of plants to his remark calling her an "easy woman," Yu-hee's anger towards the man, who keeps crossing the line, gradually boils over. However, some time has passed since "the incident of that day," and people come to visit Yu-hee, who has regained her composure. Women knock on the door of Yu-hee's shop, each carrying problems that no one else could solve. As they open the door, they say, "This is the place that... kills, right?" Meanwhile, Detective Cha Do-kyung becomes suspicious of the men who continue to disappear around the "Plant Shop" and begins to hover around Yu-hee. Will Yu-hee and their secrets really be revealed?
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