Bibliograph

The girl who wrote loneliness, Kyung-Sook Shin ; translated from the Korean by Ha-yun Jung

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The girl who wrote loneliness, Kyung-Sook Shin ; translated from the Korean by Ha-yun Jung

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The girl who wrote loneliness

Responsibility statement

Kyung-Sook Shin ; translated from the Korean by Ha-yun Jung

Summary

Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives 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 days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer

Target audience

adult

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