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The good son / You-Jeong Jeong ; translated by Chi-Young Kim.

Jeong, You-Jeong, 1966- (author.). Kim, Chi-Young, (translator.).

Summary:

Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all right at home - he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night. Yu-jin soon discovers her murdered body, lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs of their stylish Seoul duplex. He can't remember much about the night before; having suffered from seizures for most of his life, Yu-jin often has trouble with his memory. All he has is a faint impression of his mother calling his name. But was she calling for help? Or begging for her life? Thus begins Yu-jin's frantic three-day search to uncover what happened that night, and to finally learn the truth about himself and his family. A shocking and addictive psychological thriller, The Good Son explores the mysteries of mind and memory, and the twisted relationship between a mother and son, with incredible urgency"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780143131953 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 309 pages ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A novel"--Cover.
Variations on author's name per romanization, this record reflects author's preferred form.
Original Version Note:
Translation of: Chong ŭi kiwŏn.
Language Note:
Translated from Korean.
Subject: Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Chronically ill > Fiction.
Mothers > Death > Fiction.
Memory > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Seoul (Korea) > Fiction.
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 8 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burns Lake Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Burns Lake Public Library AF CHO (Text) 35198000660374 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

South Korea’s leading writer of psychological thrillers and crime fiction, You-Jeong Jeong is the award-winning author of four novels including Seven Years of Darkness, which was named one of the top ten crime novels of 2015 by Die Zeit (Germany). Her work has been translated into seven languages. A #1 bestseller in Korea, The Good Son is the first of her books to appear in English.
 
Chi-Young Kim is the award-winning translator of the Man Asian Literary Prize-winning and bestselling novel Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim, and works of fiction by Sun-Mi Hwang, J.M. Lee, and Young-Ha Kim, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.


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