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4.0

Violets

Shin Kyung-sook

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Literary Fiction

Violets

Shin Kyung-sook

4.0

Violets follows Oh San, a woman who moves through life quietly detached from the people around her. The novel focuses less on events and more on her ...

Dystopian Fiction

The Memory Police

Yōko Ogawa

4.2

On an unnamed island, objects, memories, and even parts of the body begin to disappear. Most people accept these losses without resistance, while a f...

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