Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung

Sat Nov 30 2024 at 01:30 pm to Sun Dec 01 2024 at 03:00 pm UTC+00:00

Pearse Street Library | Dublin 2

Toji Book Club
Publisher/HostToji Book Club
Shoko\u2019s Smile by Choi Eunyoung
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Join us in November after diving in Choi’s short stories and some episodes of Korean’s recent history.
About this Event

In these seven stories, Choi writes in a precise and unembellished style, to portrait the lives of young women in South Korea. The intimate is shown against sometimes a very complex political backdrop, but in a hopeful tone.

In the title story, a 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 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.

Toji (토지) Book Club aims to explore Korean culture through novels and short stories to better understand the country's recent history, society dynamics and of course to enjoy the exceptional contemporary literature coming from South Korea. We have borrowed our name from Park Kyung-Ri’s novel, because we would like Toji to be a space to discover more about South Korea paying special attention to the female prospective.
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Pearse Street Library, 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

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