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The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel
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The Highly Anticipated Release Of The Most Personal Novel By Kyungsook Shin, Who First Burst On To The Literary Scene With The New York Times Bestseller, Please Look After Mom.Homesick And Alone, A Teenaged 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 Stereoassembly Line, Struggling Through Night School Every Evening In Order To Achieve Her Dream Of Becoming A Writer.Koreas Brightest Literary Star Sets This Complex And Nuanced Comingofage Story Against The Backdrop Of Koreas Industrial Sweatshops Of The 1970S And Takes On The Extreme Exploitation, Oppression, And Urbanization That Helped Catapult Koreas Economy Out Of The Ashes Of War. But It Was Girls Like Shins Heroine Who Formed The Bottom Of Seouls 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 Halfcentury. Cited In Korea As One Of The Most Important Literary Novels Of The Decade, This Novel Cements Shins Legacy As One Of The Most Insightful And Exciting Writers Of Her Generation.
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