Homesick and alone, a teen-aged 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,
sun-less 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 1970's 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.
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