The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-sook Shin, who first burst onto the literary scene with the New York Times bestseller Please Look after Mom
Homesick and alone, a teenage 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 stereo assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer.
Korea’s brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea’s industrial sweatshops of the 1970s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea’s economy out of the ashes of war. But it was girls like Shin’s heroine who formed the bottom of Seoul’s 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 half-century. Cited in Korea as one of the most important literary novels of the decade, this novel cements Shin’s legacy as one of the most insightful and exciting writers of her generation.
© 2015 Blackstone Publishing (Lydbok): 9781504636889
Oversetter: Ha-yun Jung
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 15. september 2015
Tagger
The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-sook Shin, who first burst onto the literary scene with the New York Times bestseller Please Look after Mom
Homesick and alone, a teenage 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 stereo assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer.
Korea’s brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea’s industrial sweatshops of the 1970s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea’s economy out of the ashes of war. But it was girls like Shin’s heroine who formed the bottom of Seoul’s 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 half-century. Cited in Korea as one of the most important literary novels of the decade, this novel cements Shin’s legacy as one of the most insightful and exciting writers of her generation.
© 2015 Blackstone Publishing (Lydbok): 9781504636889
Oversetter: Ha-yun Jung
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 15. september 2015
Tagger
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Marie
31. des. 2023
This is a remarkable book that combines an immersive narrative voice, captivating insights into the protagonist's thoughts, and historical events from South Korea. This novel skillfully balances between fiction and reality, and the author's unique storytelling voice undoubtedly piqued my curiosity. The book takes us inside the mind of the main character, a young girl who experiences loneliness in a deep and heart-wrenching way. The narrative voice is so vivid and engaging that I was immediately captivated. Being inside the protagonist's head is consuming and provides an intimate glimpse into her thoughts, emotions, and dreams. The time period depicted in South Korea in the book is characterized by industrialization and the economic development that took place after the Korean War in the 1950s. Following the war, South Korea experienced significant economic growth, and the factory industry played a crucial role in this development.
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