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The girl who wrote loneliness /

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, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sin, Kyŏng-suk (Author)
Other Authors: Jung, Ha-yun (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2015.
Edition:First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Families > Korea > Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Korea (South) > Social conditions > Fiction.
Families.
Social conditions.
Teenage girls.
Korea.
Korea (South)
Fiction.
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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, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer.
Physical Description:369 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781605988634
1605988634