Kyung-sook Shin’s ‘The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness’

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Kyung-sook Shin’s ‘The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness’

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Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/books/review/kyung-sook-shins-the-girl-who-wrote-loneliness.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1
Journal: The New York Times
Issued Date: September 18, 2015
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Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED STATES
City: -
Book: -
Writer: Shin Kyung-sook

About the Author

Kyung-Sook Shin
Birth : 1963 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Kyung-sook
Family Name : Shin
Korean Name : 신경숙
ISNI : 000000008374681X
Works : 103

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Kyung-sook Shin’s “The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness” begins with an unnamed novelist writing in isolation on Korea’s Jeju Island. She informs us of a recent call from an old friend, someone who has read her work and says, “You don’t write about us. . . . You seem to write quite a lot about your childhood, and also about college, and about love, but there was nothing about us.” Rattled, the novelist looks back on her teenage years. Why indeed hasn’t she written about her classmates and friends from that time?

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