The girl who wrote loneliness

The girl who wrote loneliness / Kyung-sook Shin ; translated from the Korean by Ha-yun Jung.

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 dre...

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Main Author: Sin, Kyŏng-suk (Author)
Other Authors: Jung, Ha-yun (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Korean
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2015.
Edition:First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Korea > Fiction.
Families > Korea > Fiction.
Korea (South) > Social conditions > Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Fiction.
Uniform Title:Oettan pang.
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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.--Publisher description.
Physical Description:369 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781605988634
1605988634

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