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The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness

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  • Author(s)

    Shin Kyung-sook신경숙

  • Translator(s)

  • Publisher

    Pegasus BooksPegasus Books

  • Country

    UNITED STATES

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    2015

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 순수소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

Description 작품 소개

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness is a stark and lyrical work that follows a teen-aged girl who has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory while struggling to achieve her dream of finishing school and becoming a writer. Shin sets the this complex and nuanced coming of age story against the backdrop of Korea’s industrial sweatshops of the 1970’s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea’s economy out of the ashes of the war. Millions of teen-aged girls from the countryside descended on Seoul in the late 1970’s. These girls formed the bottom of the city’s social hierarchy, forgotten and ignored. Richly autobiographical, the novel lays bare the conflict and confusion Shin goes through as she confronts her past and the sweeping social change that has taken place in her homeland over the past half century. The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness has been cited in Korea as one of the most important literary novels of the decade, and cements Shin's legacy as one of the most insightful and exciting young writers of her generation. Reference : Pegasus Books. "The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness", http://pegasusbooks.com/books/the-girl-who-wrote-loneliness-9781605988634-hardcover. accessed 20 Oct 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Shin Kyung-sook

Shin Kyung-sook신경숙

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness is a stark and lyrical work that follows a teen-aged girl who has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory while struggling to achieve her dream of finishing school and becoming a writer. Shin sets the this complex and nuanced coming of age story against the backdrop of Korea’s industrial sweatshops of the 1970’s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea’s economy out of the ashes of the war. Millions of teen-aged girls from the countryside descended on Seoul in the late 1970’s. These girls formed the bottom of the city’s social hierarchy, forgotten and ignored. Richly autobiographical, the novel lays bare the conflict and confusion Shin goes through as she confronts her past and the sweeping social change that has taken place in her homeland over the past half century. The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness has been cited in Korea as one of the most important literary novels of the decade, and cements Shin's legacy as one of the most insightful and exciting young writers of her generation. Reference : Pegasus Books. "The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness", http://pegasusbooks.com/books/the-girl-who-wrote-loneliness-9781605988634-hardcover. accessed 20 Oct 2023.

Original Work 원작

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness

외딴방: 신경숙 장편소설

By Shin Kyung-sook (신경숙)

Munhakdongne Publishing Corp. (2014)

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