by Hwang Sok-yong · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420608914
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«Shim Chong, la niña vendida» is the historical novel by Hwang Sok-yong, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (504 pages, in Spanish).
Korea, late 19th century. Shim Chong, sold by her stepmother and renamed Lenhwa (Lotus Flower), experiences prostitution from the underworld to high society and from the Yellow River to the gambling dens of Nagasaki. Her body becomes an instrument of power: from a sold girl she becomes one who sells herself when and how she wants, but freedom has a price.
Translation by Blanca Riestra. Part of the Alianza Literaria collection. The original work was published in 2003; the novel won the Émile Guimet Prize in 2018.
For readers of historical fiction and Asian narrative interested in female characters who fight to decide their own destiny.
Hwang Sok-yong is a South Korean novelist.
