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2022 selection · Fiction & literature
Violets
Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Anton Hur appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, seriously great writing, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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