Shoko's Smile

Shoko's Smile
Choi Eunyoung
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 272pg
3 Jun 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529376036
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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. 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. Translated by Sung Ryu.
Gentle yet elucidating . . . Shoko' s Smile is the most beautiful book I' ve come across this year * Sisain * Shoko' s Smile is the outcome of Choi' s quite triumphant attempt to invent her own way to talk about dark facets of our reality . . . And her way at first comes across as bright and lighthearted. Of course, misleadingly so . . . Choi invents the narratives of today' s real people who have not surrendered or become oppressors themselves, and who have survived nonetheless * GQ * Eunyoung' s engaging debut collection examines her protagonists' interior lives in moments of longing, connection, and familial rift . . . Eunyoung' s lyrical prose and complex characters will captivate readers * Publishers Weekly *
Choi Eunyoung is a South Korean writer acclaimed for her nuanced yet poignant stories about women, queer people, victims of state violence, and other marginalised voices. She is the author of the bestselling story collections Shoko' s Smile and Someone Who Can' t Hurt Me, which have sold over 200,000 copies and 150,000 copies respectively in Korea. Since her literary debut in 2013, she has received numerous accolades, including the Munhakdongne Young Writers Award, Heo Kyun Literary Award, Lee Haejo Literary Award, and Hankook Ilbo Literary Award. Both of her story collections were selected as the best fiction title of the year by 50 Korean writers (2016, 2018). She has also published a Korean-English bilingual edition of her novella The Summer and contributed to many anthologies. Sung Ryu is a Korean-English translator who grew up in South Korea, the US, and Canada, her most recent home being Singapore. Her translations include Tower by Bae Myung-hoon, I' m Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young and the Korean edition of Grandma Moses: My Life' s History by Anna Mary Robertson Moses.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529376036
Published: 3 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 272

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