Lemon (2021) by Kwon Yeo-Sun

Book Review

Lemon (2021) 

by Kwon Yeo-Sun

  The Kindle edition of this book had a blurb that said something like, "Favorite of BTS fans."  What does that mean?  I guess it means that Lemon was a big hit in South Korea with teens, even as the English translation is unlikely to escape the read in translation scene for the mass market.   Usually though it seems like the Authors who get their works translated into English are "serious" authors, even as foreign genre work proliferates in other mediums, particularly television.   Where are the foreign hits, I ask. 

  Nominally a work of crime fiction about the unsolved murder of a beautiful but absent high school student, Lemon is really about the impact of the murder on the victim's sister, Da-on. Her obsession with revisiting the events of 2002, the murder happens at the Apex of the Korean World Cup, colors her present, as she tracks down two of the potential perpetrators of the crime.