By Chung Ah-young
Staff Reporter
If you are waiting for a new novel by celebrated novelist Gong Ji-young, just go online instead of rushing to a bookstore.
Gong has launched her new novel, ``The Crucible'' on Daum, one of the nation's major portals, along with other prominent authors like Lee Ki-ho and Ham Min-bok.
Gong's new novel is based on the sexual assault incident at Gwangju Inhwa School, a special school for deaf students, in which educational workers continuously sexually harassed disabled students in 2005.
The novel's title was taken from Arthur Miller's ``The Crucible,'' based on the real events leading up to ``witch trials'' in the small puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, portraying the event as an allegory for