"She is like a great writer, with the power to read people; I was influenced by her. But hers wasn't a life where you could sit indoors with books."
— Kyung-sook Shin

January 1, 1970

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On the resilience of her mother in “Kyung-Sook Shin: 'In my 20s I lived through an era of terrible political events and suspicious deaths'” in The Guardian (2014 Jun 7)