THE INTERNATIONAL HIT · Translated from the Korean by Shanna Tan · Hardback · Indian subcontinent edition
Every garden needs a little weeding.
Tucked away in a corner of Dosan, South Korea, is Plant Shop. Its owner, Yoohee, has made a fresh start, and her meticulously grown foliage thrives under her care. For customers it is a refuge — petunias and marigolds in bloom, and air that feels like a cure.
By day Yoohee gives gardening advice. After hours she offers a rather different service. Women at the end of their tether come to her about men they wish would simply disappear from their lives, and Yoohee understands, because she has met men like that herself — and pruned them back. So when night falls she trades her apron for a shovel and heads out into her moonlit garden to bury the remains of a few unfortunate encounters.
Then men begin to go missing, and a determined young detective comes knocking.
Dark, sharp and dangerously satisfying, Plant Lady is a twisted story of reinvention, female rage and the lengths people will go to take back control — Korean comfort fiction with the soil turned over. The Irish Times called it unlike anything else this year.
About the author and translator
Minyoung Kang is a writer and editor-in-chief of the film magazine CAST. Her books include the novel Don't Let Me Freeze Up, Please and the essay collection Ride a Bicycle and Keep Going, and she publishes short stories on the Korean ebook platform RIDIBooks. She lives in South Korea.
Shanna Tan translates from Korean, Chinese and Japanese. Her translations include the bestselling Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum.
Edition details
- Doubleday hardback, 208 pages
- For sale in the Indian subcontinent only
- Published 30 July 2026
Content note: Despite the cosy cover, this is a revenge thriller with murder, violence and themes of domestic and sexual abuse. Intended for adult readers.
