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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Paperback)
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Paperback)

(author), (translator)
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Paperback 176 Pages
Published: 20/02/2020

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A landmark publication in Nam-Joo’s native country where it kick-started a nascent MeToo movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 throws a grenade under the appalling misogyny and paternalism of South Korean society. 

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 Kang's The Vegetarian.

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781471184284
Number of pages: 176
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 13 mm

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“A statement....”

This novella is an international bestseller. It literally sums up how women are treated in the male dominated society of Korea, in the workplace, in the family, in marriage and over all as an individual.

Kim... More

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Raven88

“A touchstone...”

I read this book with an increasing sense of disbelief and anger, as Nam-Joo charts the life and experiences of Kim Yijoung, an ordinary woman of South Korea, struggling to exist in a hugely paternalistic and... More

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Iain

“One of 2020's most important novels”

To me this read like the blackest of jokes - a high-wire walk of a narrative, casually yet icily calling out all the ways in which the titular everywoman experiences the innate mysogyny of a crushing, stifling life in... More

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