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Shoko's Smile
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- Narrated by: Jackie Chung, Janet Song, Greta Jung
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A best-selling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young writers.
In crisp, unembellished prose, Eunyoung Choi 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, traveling 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.
In the tradition of Sally Rooney, Banana Yoshimoto, and Marilynne Robinson - writers from different cultures who all take an unvarnished look at human relationships and the female experience - Eunyoung Choi is a writer to watch.