
Shoko's Smile
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 f...
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 f...