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The good son / You-Jeong Jeong ; translated by Chi-Young Kim.
"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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143131953 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 309 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Korea by EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Lt., Seoul, 2016"--Tile page verso. |
| Language Note: | In English, translated from the Korean. |
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| Subject: | Mothers and sons > Fiction. Chronically ill > Fiction. Mothers > Death > Fiction. Memory > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Seoul (Korea) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Chong | 31681010116432 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A young man with seizure-related memory loss wakes up one morning to find his mother brutally murdered and embarks on a frantic three-day search for answers. By the award-winning author of Seven Years of Darkness. Original. - Baker & Taylor
A young man with seizure-related memory loss wakes up one morning to find his mother brutally murdered and embarks on a frantic three-day search to uncover what happened that night, and to finally learn the truth about himself and his family. - Baker & Taylor
""A cool, crafty did-he-do-it thriller...The Good Son will rivet readers of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith." --A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window. The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the #1 international bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King" 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, andthe twisted relationship between a mother and son, with incredible urgency"-- - Penguin Putnam
âIngeniously twisted.â âEntertainment Weekly, âMust Listâ
âWill leave even the most seasoned crime fiction readers guessing.â âCrimeReads
"[Jeong] maintains suspense about her inhuman-seeming protagonist's fate until the bitter end.â âThe Wall Street Journal
Finalist for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonâs âSummer Readsâ Book Club
The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the #1 bestselling novelist known as âKorea's Stephen KingâÂ
Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself?
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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 â 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?
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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.
Named a Must-Read Book of the Summer by Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, Bustle, CrimeReads, Lit Hub, The Millions, Electric Literature, and Brit + Co
