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

novels

Main title

The girl who wrote loneliness

Oclc number

907103923

Responsibility statement

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

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, sunless days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer

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