Bibliograph

Shoko's smile, Choi Eunyoung ; translated by Sung Ryu

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Label

Shoko's smile, Choi Eunyoung ; translated by Sung Ryu

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Shoko's smile

Responsibility statement

Choi Eunyoung ; translated by Sung Ryu

Summary

In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood. In 'A Song from Afar', a young woman grapples with the death of her lover, travelling to Russia to search for information about the deceased. In 'Secret', the parents of a teacher killed in the Sewol ferry sinking hide the news of her death from her grandmother

Target audience

adult

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