François Bon, the French writer, translator, and activist, traveled to the Lorraine region of France in 2002 to study the effects of the sudden closing of two Daewoo factories there on the “factory town” of Fameck. In an inventive, imagined reportage combining fiction, theater, and interview forms, Bon writes a record of the social devastation wrought by the closures on the mostly women workers, creating a document that is both moving and sociologically important. Carefully translated over the past three years by Youna Kwak, winner of the French Voices Grand Prize,  Daewoo is a genre-bending and compelling work.