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      Shoko's Smile: Stories

      by Eun-young Choi
      Published
      Jun 2021
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      272
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      A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young writers.

      In crisp, unembellished prose, Eun-young 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--Choi Eunyoung is a writer to watch.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical Literary

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      First Edition Jun 2021 Penguin ISBN13 9780143135265 ISBN10 0143135260
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      Jun 2021 Penguin ISBN13 9780525506935 ISBN10 0525506934
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      Jun 2021 Penguin Books ISBN10 B08LFZ3GP1
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      Jun 2021 Penguin Audio ISBN10 B08MLG8283
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