A girl wrote solitude

Author of the novel "Please Take Care of My Mother" Jade Kyoung Suk Shin writes in the intertwined space between imagination and reality.. without allowing the novel or the reader to stop questioning what is real and what is imagination. Despite many references to its autobiographical nature, a girl who wrote about isolation carries within it the ghosts of a remarkable and captivating novel. NPR A girl who wrote about isolation Author: Kyoung Suk Shin Translator: Mohamed Naguib Kyoung Suk Shin is interested in questioning the purpose of writing and the fine line between the past and the present.. she writes the past in the present tense, and the present in the past tense. But she realizes that it is impossible to avoid confronting the wounds of the past no matter how difficult the confrontation. A girl who wrote about isolation, questioning the writer's ability to build a bridge connecting the past and the present. Against the backdrop of the circumstances of millions of rural girls who moved to Seoul to work in factories, and were forgotten and ignored, Kyoung Suk Shin writes a novel dominated by autobiographical character, where she faces her past alongside the changes Korea witnessed in the second half of the twentieth century. This novel made Shin one of the most important contemporary writers in Korea, later crowned by her winning the Asian Booker Prize for her novel "Please Take Care of My Mother".