How Long to Read The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel by Kyung-Sook Shin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-Sook Shin, who first burst on to the literary scene with the New York Times bestseller, Please Look After Mom. Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer. Korea’s brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea’s industrial sweatshops of the 1970’s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea’s economy out of the ashes of war. But it was girls like Shin’s heroine who formed the bottom of Seoul’s rapidly changing social hierarchy, forgotten and ignored. Richly autobiographical, The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness lays bare the conflict and confusion Shin faces as she confronts her past and the sweeping social change of the past half-century. Cited in Korea as one of the most important literary novels of the decade, this novel cements Shin’s legacy as one of the most insightful and exciting writers of her generation.

How long is The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel?

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel by Kyung-Sook Shin is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.

This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel?

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness: A Novel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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