Kyung-Sook Shin
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-sook Shin, who first burst onto the literary scene with the New York Times bestseller Please Look after Mom
Homesick and alone, a teenage 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, sunless days on a stereo assembly line, struggling through night
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The bus began to pull away before I had a chance to shout goodbye to Father. I think about that moment from time to time. About how long he must've stood there after the bus had left. About what he must've felt staring down that dark road, long after the bus had disappeared. About how long he must've waited before going back inside the store." —From Chapter 1 Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home...