Cho Nam-joo

Su nombre es Kim Ji-young. Tiene 33 años y el nombre más común de Corea. Su historia ha incendiado Asia entera. «Ni siquiera yo sé si me casaré o si tendré hijos. O puede que me muera antes. ¿Por qué

El nuevo e impactante libro de la aclamada autora de Kim Ji-Young, nacida en 1982,el fenómeno editorial con 1.500.000 de lectores, finalista del National Book Award. «Una colección de relatos rica en

The multi-million copy selling, international bestseller. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night. Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn't get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely. Kim Jiyoung is depressed. Kim Jiyoung is mad. Kim Jiyoung is her own woman. Kim Jiyoung is every woman. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking. The life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. Riveting, original and uncompromising, this is the most important book to have emerged from South Korea since Han

Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old millennial everywoman, she has recently left her white-collar desk jobin order to care for her newborn daughter full-timeas so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other womenalive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist.In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoungs entire life is recounted to the psychiatrista narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Born in 1982 and given the most common name for Korean baby girls, Jiyoung quickly becomes the unfavored sister to her princeling little brother. Always, her behavior is policed by the male figures around herfrom the elementary school teachers who enforce strict uniforms for girls, to the coworkers who install a hidden camera in the womens restroom and post their photos online. In her fathers eyes, it is Jiyoungs fault that men harass her late at night; in her husbands eyes, it is Jiyoungs duty to forsake her career to take care of him and their childto put them first.Jiyoungs painfully common life is juxtaposed against a backdrop of an advancing Korea, as it abandons family planning birth control policies and passes new legislation against gender discrimination. But can her doctor flawlessly, completely cure her, or even discover what truly ails her?

FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982'There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them.' The Observer A thought-provoking, nuanced read Sarah Manning, Red 'Dazzling prose' Elle Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 '[A]N AFFECTING PORTRAIT OF PEOPLE DOING THEIR BEST TO SURVIVE IN A WORLD THAT WOULD RATHER PRETEND THEY DIDN'T EXIST.' NEW YORK TIMES IN A COUNTRY CALLED 'TOWN', SU IS FOUND DEAD IN AN AB

From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho's complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.' i newspaper 'Like Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games, Saha points to the increasing inequality and lack of social mobility in South Korea. ... With global inequality on the rise, Saha's theme of human dignity quashed by the interests of mega-corporations resonates widely.' Guardian '[A]n affecting portrait of people doing their best to survive in a world that would rather pretend they didn't exist.' New York Times In a country called 'Town', Su is found dead in an abandoned car.The suspected killer is presumed to come from the Saha Estates. Town is a privatised country, controlled by a secretive organisation known as the Seven Premiers. It is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots and those who have the very least live on the Saha Estates.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG BORN 1982 There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them The Observer A thought provoking nuanced read Sarah Manning Red Dazzling prose Elle Eight women Eight stories One reality A woman is born A woman is filmed in public without consent A woman suffers domestic violence A woman is gaslit A woman is discriminated against at work A woman grows old A woman becomes famous A woman is hated and loved and then hated again Written in Cho Nam Joo s masterful razor sharp prose Miss Kim Knows brings together the lives of eight Korean women aged 10 to 80 Contained in each of these biographies is a microcosm of contemporary Korea and the challenges and injustices that women face from childhood to old age As with Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 the fates of these eight women are the fates of women the world over And under Cho Nam Joo s precise unveiled gaze nothing and nobody escapes scrutiny not even herself

THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY SELLING SOUTH KOREAN SENSATION THAT HAS GOT THE WHOLE WORLD TALKING''A ground-breaking work of feminist fiction.'' Stylist Who is Kim Jiyoung? Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night. Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn&rsquot get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely. Kim Jiyoung is depressed. Kim Jiyoung is mad. Kim Jiyoung is her own woman. Kim Jiyoung is every woman.Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century and raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. Riveting, original and uncompromising, this is the mos

Su nombre es Kim Ji-young. Tiene 33 años y el nombre más común de Corea. Su historia ha incendiado Asia entera.«Ni siquiera yo sé si me casaré o si tendré hijos. O puede que me muera antes. ¿Por qué

El nuevo e impactante libro de la aclamada autora de Kim Ji-Young, nacida en 1982,el fenómeno editorial con 1.500.000 de lectores,finalista del National Book Award.«Una colección de relatos rica en c

Su nombre es Kim Ji-young. Tiene 33 años y el nombre más común de Corea. Su historia ha incendiado Asia entera.«Ni siquiera yo sé si me casaré o si tendré hijos. O puede que me muera antes. ¿Por qué

El nuevo e impactante libro de la aclamada autora de Kim Ji-Young, nacida en 1982,el fenómeno editorial con 1.500.000 de lectores,finalista del National Book Award.«Una colección de relatos rica en c