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...
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 k...
