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체공녀 강주룡

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Winner of the 2018 Hankyoreh Literature Prize

Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Min Jin Lee's P achinko, this bestselling novel tells readers an ultimate story of ascent by leading to the female w orking-class hero w ho loved a nd fought through the brutal age of earlier 20th Century.

“The exuberant, self-determined protagonist who worked, fought, and loved, captivates readers the whole time."
― Seo Young-In, literary critic

Early morning on 29th May, 1931, a woman went up on the roof of the Eulmil Pavilion in Pyungyang. She was a factory worker, demanding an end to wage cut, and she became the first laborer in Korea, then Chosun, who staged a high-altitude sit-in ever. Her name is Kang Juryong. “I've starved for a long time.” The story begins with her voice in her time in prison while on hunger strike. And readers go back in time when it all started. How come did she end up in a solitary cell and how did she become history that is relevant and resonates than ever. Winner of the 23rd of Hankyoreh Literature Prize, the title is based on a real life of Kang Juryong, the female working-class hero who loved and fought through the brutal age of earlier 20th Century. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and the film Suffragette, the life in this novel is not a new story at all, but it leads readers to an ultimate story of ascent. If you believe a sole purpose of literature is to inspire and drive people to become something bigger than themselves, this is the story for you.

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Park Seolyeon박서련

Park Seoryeon (1989-) is a South Korean novelist. She made her literary debut in 2015 when her short story “Mikimauseu keulleob” (미키마우스 클럽 The Mickey Mouse Club) won the Silcheon Munhak New Writer’s Award. In 2018, she won the 23rd Hankyoreh Literature Award with the novel Chegongnyeo gangjuryong (체공녀 강주룡 Kang Juryong, the Woman in the Air). She uses love and the voices of the underprivileged, such as women, the elderly, and sexual minorities, who are excluded and hidden from society, as the subject of her works.

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