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NPR’s Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2015’s Great Reads

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Article
http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2015/#/
Journal
NPR
Issued Date
December 08, 2015
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
-
Book
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness
Writer
Shin Kyung-sook
Translator
Ha-yun Jung

About the Author

  • Kyung-Sook Shin
  • Birth : 1963 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kyung-sook
  • Family Name : Shin
  • Korean Name : 신경숙
  • ISNI : 000000008374681X
  • Works : 136
Descriptions - 1 Languages
  • English(English)

Kyung-Sook Shin's work often inhabits the space between story and reality. This novel about a girl who isn't quite her, working in a factory and going to school in the 1970s is framed with the modern life of "the author," in a time and place she haunts more than really lives in. Until her youth is laid out and the truth told, she's trapped in echoes of life: negotiating family in the past, staring at an unfinished manuscript in the future. It's a story of the pasts that build us, and it makes for one of the most absorbing reads of the year.  

Translated Books136 See More

  • Indonesian(Bahasa Indonesia) Book Available
    Please Look After Mom
    Kyung-Sook Shin / 신경숙 / 2011
  • Japanese(日本語) Book Available
    すばる
    Kyung-Sook Shin et al / 신경숙 et al / 1998
  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    单人房
    Kyung-Sook Shin et al / 신경숙 / 2006

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