The girl who wrote loneliness

Taking a sweatshop job in Seoul to support her family, a teenaged girl endures a life of extreme exploitation that contributes to Korea's economic rise in the 1970s. She works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream o...

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Main Author: Sin, Kyŏng-suk
Other Authors: Jung, Ha-yun (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Korean
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2015.
Edition:First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
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Summary:Taking a sweatshop job in Seoul to support her family, a teenaged girl endures a life of extreme exploitation that contributes to Korea's economic rise in the 1970s. 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.
Item Description:Originally published in Korean as "Oettan pang."
Physical Description:369 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781605988634
1605988634
Author Notes:Kyung-Sook Shin is one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She is the author of I'll Be Right There and Please Look After Mom, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Man Asian Literary Prize winner.