num_pages: 272
description: 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.
language: English
title: Shoko's Smile: Stories
publisher: Penguin Books