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...
I feel as if this book was made for me. I read it at just the right time in my life .I think anyone can enjoy this novel, but it’s especially for young women who are determined to make something of themselves, regardless of the cards that life has dealt them. I really can’t think of a Similar book, it’s unlike anything else I’ve ever read.
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