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The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness

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Author
Kyung-Sook Shin
Co-Author
-
Translator
Ha-yun Jung
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Published Year
2015
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999

Original Title
외딴 방
Romanization of Original
Oettanbang
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781504636780
Page
-
Series
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About the Author

  • Kyung-Sook Shin
  • Birth : 1963 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kyung-sook
  • Family Name : Shin
  • Korean Name : 신경숙
  • ISNI : 000000008374681X
  • Works : 136
About the Original Work
  • 외딴 방
  • Author : Kyung-Sook Shin
  • Published Year : 1995
  • English Title : The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-sook Shin, who first burst onto the literary scene with the New York Times bestseller Please Look after Mom

Homesick and alone, a teenage 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, sunless 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 1970s 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.

Richly autobiographical, The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness lays bare the conflict and confusion Shin faces as she confronts her past and the sweeping social change of the past half-century. Cited in Korea as one of the most important literary novels of the decade, this novel cements Shin's legacy as one of the most insightful and exciting writers of her generation.

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Translated Books8 See More

  • Arabic(اللغة العربية) Book
    فتاة كتبت العزلة
    كيونغ سوك شين / 신경숙 / 2021 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999
  • Norwegian(Norsk) Book
    Jenta som skrev ensomhet
    Shin Kyung-sook / 신경숙 / 2017 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999
  • Vietnamese(Tiếng Việt) Book
    Cô Gái Viết Nỗi Cô Đơn
    Shin Kyung-sook / 신경숙 / 2016 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999
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