The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness Lib/E (Audiobook)

from Dreesie

This is not exactly memoir, but from all of my research I believe it is autofiction--though I have never found it called that. This book is about the lives of those who were working in Seoul in the 1970s/80s as Korea rocketed into a technological/manufacturing world power. TVs, stereos, and othe...

from LynnB

This was an interesting read. The book is fiction, but highly autobiographical, as the narrator reminds us several times. It tells the story of a young woman who leaves rural Korea to attend school in Seoul. The only way to achieve this is through a program that allows factory workers to attend s...

from Calavari

The Girl Who Wrote Lonliness by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Ha-Yun Jung It's not very often that a work of fiction gets to me as much as this one did. It was beautiful and haunting and familiar and foreign all at the same time.The book is written as a sort of memoir. The protagonist ...

from Calavari

The Girl Who Wrote Lonliness by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Ha-Yun Jung It's not very often that a work of fiction gets to me as much as this one did. It was beautiful and haunting and familiar and foreign all at the same time.The book is written as a sort of memoir. The protagonist ...