{"id":139905,"date":"2022-01-19T10:12:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/?p=139905"},"modified":"2025-04-25T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T04:49:08","slug":"lemon-kwon-yeo-sun-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/lemon-kwon-yeo-sun-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon (Kwon Yeo-sun) &#8211; book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139908 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lemon.jpg?resize=278%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lemon.jpg?w=278&amp;ssl=1 278w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lemon.jpg?resize=185%2C300&amp;ssl=1 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/>Everything Korean seems to be raging right now \u2013 from Squid Game to K-Pop to Korean fried chicken and beer. But these things did not just appear overnight, And much like all of those examples, Korean crime fiction has been bubbling along in the background just waiting for the West to discover it. And there have already been some great titles in translation including Kim Un-Su\u2019s The Plotters and Jeong You-Jeong\u2019s Seven Years of Darkness and The Good Son. Into this tradition comes Kwon Yeo-sun\u2019s first novel in translation Lemon (translated by Janet Hong). While there is a crime at the centre of this novel, as with all good crime fiction it has much more on its mind than unmasking a killer.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon is built as a series of short vignettes from different points of view. It starts with the aggressive interrogation of Han Manu, accused of murdering schoolgirl Hae-On in 2002. This interrogation, and much of the story is told from the perspective of Hae-on\u2019s younger sister Da-on who will spend the years following that murder grieving for her sister, trying to be her sister and seeking to find her sister\u2019s killer. Along the way she will encounter her sister\u2019s friend, strike up an unlikely friendship with Han Manu and his own sister and commit crimes of her own.<\/p>\n<p>As already mentioned, the crime fiction elements of this novel are used to highlight issues in Korean society. Kwon\u2019s narrative deals with issues of beauty standards and plastic surgery, educational expectations, compulsory military service, the Korean medical system and of course, the difference between the haves and the have-nots. And she does this through a range of likeable and not so likeable characters and a mystery that, depending on how the book is read, is never quite solved. But what Lemon definitely demonstrates is the richness and diversity of the Korean crime scene (K-crime?), a crime fiction sub-genre just waiting to be more widely discovered.<\/p>\n<h4>Robert Goodman<br \/>\nFor more of Robert&#8217;s reviews, visit his blog <a href=\"https:\/\/pilebythebed.com\/\">Pile By the Bed<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything Korean seems to be raging right now \u2013 from Squid Game to K-Pop to Korean fried chicken and beer. But these things did not just appear overnight, And much like all of those examples, Korean crime fiction has been bubbling along in the background just waiting for the West to discover it. 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