The Good Son
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: kor
Translation of: 종의 기원
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780525503743
Copyright date: 2016, 2018
First sentence: The smell of blood woke me.
Description: **The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the 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, and the twisted relationship between a mother and son, with incredible urgency.
Table of contents: title: ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR; title: TITLE PAGE; title: COPYRIGHT; title: CONTENTS; label: I
title: A CALL IN THE DARK; label: II
title: WHO AM I?; label: III
title: A DANGER TO OTHERS; label: IV
title: ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES; title: EPILOGUE