Title:
The girl who wrote loneliness / Kyung-sook Shin ; translated from the Korean by Ha-yun Jung.
ISBN:
9781605988634
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Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2015.
Physical Description:
369 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Translation of Oettan pang.
Author's name appears on cover with the spelling Kyung-Sook Shin.
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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OCLC Number:
ocn907103923
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
