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Publisher: Pegasus Books
Author: Kyung-Sook Shin
ISBN: 9781681772370
Fiction, Historical
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness
by
Kyung-Sook Shin
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by
Kyung-Sook Shin
Reviews
"There's a hypnotic quality to this melancholy coming-of-age story...It melds Shin's characteristic themes of politics, literature, and painful experience into a mysteriously compelling whole."
Kirkus Reviews
Summary
Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer.
Korea’s brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea’s industrial sweatshops of the 1970’s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea’s economy out of the ashes of war. But it was girls like Shin’s heroine who formed the bottom of Seoul’s rapidly changing social hierarchy, forgotten and ignored.
