Lemon: Kwon Yeo-sun

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The Realtor takes him around to look at the various farms, driving down a road next to a lemon orchard where he had to drive over the lemons that had been blown onto the road, so the title of this book. Once at the entrance to the farm, he learns that he had to walk an hour to get to it. Then, when he describes the farm, I think, the title of this book should have been, Buying a Lemon, because, first, there is no road access, and then he learns that there is no water or electricity, but there are scorpions. Sold!

Chilling, suspenseful and disconcerting... I couldn't put it down and read deep into the night until I finished it, with my heart hammering' Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face This is the setup, but Kwon makes it clear that discovering the truth of who did it is not her aim. Instead, we follow the three women most affected over the 17 years that follow Hae-on’s death: her younger sister, Da-on; her classmate and Da-on’s literature club mentor, Sanghui (who’s referred to in the novel by the affectionate term “eonni”); and the second-prettiest girl in school, Yun Taerim. Each has their own trauma from the event, a catalyst that caused their lives to splinter off into drastically different directions. The novel jumps between the perspectives of the three women in the years after: Taerim in therapy, Sanghui trying to move on, and Da-on seeking truth. Discovering whodunnit isn't really the point here; Lemon is a subtle, often intense meditation on the after-effects of violence' Guardian Finalmente la espantosa sesión llegó a su fin. "Maravilloso.", dije con un suspiro, "¿No conocen otras tonadas?". Eduardo y Manuel me analizaron frunciendo el ceño. "De acuerdo, vamos a tocar otra". Me estaba bien empleado.

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It’s not clear what to make of the title, the recurring motif of lemons and the color yellow. Perhaps the fruit’s sweet and sour gestures at the coinciding appeal and ugliness of the murder, or of the victim herself. Perhaps the color signals innocence: Da-on is obsessed by the idea that, contrary to the reports, Hae-on was wearing a yellow sundress when she was killed. But maybe I’m getting carried away. We’re not far from the charting of clues and linking of theories. This narrative style mimics that of the whodunnit, dropping clues and red herrings along the way, but there are other, more compelling, mysteries we’re trying to solve. Your enjoyment of it will depend on how you feel about ambiguity. I had absolutely no idea about what a "thing" feathers were for Victorian-era women, or what a huge business they were -- or what a toll they took on bird populations around the world, with some species hunted to the point of extinction. Boase lays out the facts here in horrifying detail. I was reminded of how both the beaver and the buffalo here in North America were hunted and slaughtered in massive numbers -- primarily for their pelts -- between the early 1600s & late 1800s, almost to the point of extinction. Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather was a wonderful book for me to read combining two topics which have played a significant role in my life - women’s history, particularly their efforts to gain direct representation in parliament both through the vote and through women candidates (I have a PhD in the area) and bird conservation (besides reading birding is my other main interest). Manuel hizo lo que le pedían, entregándole una a su padre y sentándose luego a su lado con la otra. Las afinaron un poco, tocaron distraídamente unos acordes,y pasaron a trancas y barrancas a una tonada popular alpujarreña. 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.

The entire experience of an unfathomable and baffling murder is puzzling —but contextually - other aspects explored outranks and outweighs the crime itself.Had me gripped from the start... The author's skill is to drop a hint as to who did the deed, but then retain our interest through deft portrait-painting of the different characters in the story (narrators and otherwise), presenting us with motivations and suspicions that conflict with our provisional view' I wish this had lived up to its absolutely gorgeous cover, but it didn't quite. The focus is the women-founded Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for the purpose of ending the brutal plumage trade (the main reason I was interested in it), and the tensions between the Society and the contemporary suffragist movement. The Society is represented by Etta Lemon, the suffragist movement by Emmeline Pankhurst. I appreciated how Boase set up these two women and brought out their similarities in the midst of their glaring differences: Lemon, a strong-willed and outspoken woman, opposed extending the vote to women. I also appreciated how Boase made an effort to understand both sides, although I don't think she spent as much time exploring the reasons why some women opposed the suffragist movement as she should have: she ultimately concluded (as far as I could tell) that these women had just internalized misogyny and couldn't get beyond seeing themselves as standing in the shadow of the men. In the end it felt like Boase was still struggling to wrap her mind around the concept of women opposing women's suffrage...and not quite succeeding. [She also kept mentioning and describing the moustaches on the guys, and I got the feeling she was treating it as a sign of the patriarchy or something and it was just weird.] The time line of the campaign to save birds from being gruesomely adorned on women's headwear and the women's suffrage movement in Britain take similar timelines.

Such an interesting story, filled with many fascinating details. I especially enjoyed the opening sections outlining the working conditions of women and children in the feather trade. A woman and two children could spend more than a day preparing a single ostrich feather, a task requiring over 8,600 knots. I also enjoyed reading the stories of many women who have previously flown under history’s radar. Not to mention the gender based disputes over RSPB leadership - men thought they were scientific and dismissed women as sentimental. Snippets about the historian’s work, how she discovered some things but was unable to find others, also added interest for me. 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.Es la historia real de un inglés, que se va con su señora a vivir a una casucha inhóspita en medio de la nada, o bueno, en medio de una zona muy fértil y bonita en Andalucía. Pero el lugar hasta donde llegan se está literalmente cayendo a pedazos, al menos al principio. Luego van armando de a poquito sus cosas.

Lemon” [a Korean translated psychological literary crime thriller] is the strangest-odd-intriguing….slowly affecting book … The book is actually only half about Etta Lemon, a woman who felt passionately that feathers/whole birds shouldn't be used to decorate hats and who was central to the founding of the RSPB. She took on the trend for 'murderous millinery' and made it her life's work - and good on her!Though the narrative takes the form of a detective novel, it becomes a meditation on envy, grief and, this being South Korea, plastic surgery. Understated yet lingeringly eerie This very much isn't a standard crime novel. While Ha-on, seventeen years later, still wants to know who killed her sister, the novel is more interested in tracing the psychological impact on all those involved, the impact of grief, guilt and revenge, as well as highlighting social questions of class.