Petty lies : a novel / Sulmi Bak ; translated by Sarah Lyo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pak, Sŏl-mi, author.

Contributor:

Lyo, Sarah, translator.

Standardized Title:

Paekcho ŭi ch'immuk. English

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Asians--Fiction.

Asians.

Rich people--Fiction.

Rich people.

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Teenage boys--Fiction.

Teenage boys.

Murder--Fiction.

Murder.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Revenge--Fiction.

Revenge.

Genre:

Epistolary fiction

Novels

Translations

Thrillers (Fiction)

Horror fiction.

Epistolary fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

153 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2025.

Summary:

Mira is a desperate young woman, hired by a wealthy single mother to tutor her lonesome son, Yuchan. But Mira is not who she presents herself to be; she is haunted by the death of her own family and motivated by the dark pulse of vengeance. Yuchan was cruel to Mira's mother. A kind of cruelty she can't ever forgive. And then there is Jiwon, the boy's mother, a bad mother, Mira thinks, or so Jiwon tells herself she must not be. But as Mira spends more time in the family's sprawling home, she begins to suspect Yuchan is not the culprit she's after. Someone else in the family has been pulling the strings. Someone with a deviant plan she can't begin to imagine. Structured around four different letters and journal entries: Mira's, Jiwon's reply, Yuchan's younger brother's diary entry and, finally, Mira's own written recollection. Each new section brings us deeper into a web of cruelty, consequence, and closer to the truth.

Notes:

Translated from the Korean.

ISBN:

9780316594486

0316594482

OCLC:

1505745508

Publisher Number:

90103564638