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Korea's brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea's industrial sweatshops of the 1970s 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.

So-nyo, una mujer de sesenta y nueve años y algunos achaques, desaparece en medio de la multitud al separarse de su marido cuando se cierran las puertas de un tren abarrotado. Su familia emprende una búsqueda desesperada, consumidos por la culpabilidad, el dolor, y las recriminaciones del pasado. Mientras discuten sobre los carteles de «Se busca» que cuelgan por toda la ciudad, sus hijos se dan cuenta de que nadie tiene una fotografía reciente de su madre.

Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I'll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from her ex-boyfriend after eight years of separation, memories of a tumultuous youth begin to resurface, forcing her to re-live the most intense period of her life.