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Searing stories that critique the gender pressures and injustices rife in modern Korea from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Searing stories that critique the gender pressures and injustices rife in modern Korea from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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 ten to eighty. Contained in each of these sensational stories 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.
• Miss Kim Knows is the sensational new book from Cho Nam-joo, the internationally bestselling and highly acclaimed author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982.
• Women worldwide can relate to Cho Nam-joo's compassionate and unflinching depiction of the plight of women in modern-day Korea.
• This book continues the themes put forward in Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, which the New York Times called a "cultural call to arms" for propelling a feminist wave and unleashing a debate about inequality, a novel so divisive that when a member of K-pop band Red Velvet revealed she'd read it, male music fans vowed to burn her photo.
• For fans of Sayaka Murata, Hiromi Kawakami, or Anuja Varghese.
Searing stories that critique the gender pressures and injustices rife in modern Korea from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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 ten to eighty. Contained in each of these sensational stories 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.
• Miss Kim Knows is the sensational new book from Cho Nam-joo, the internationally bestselling and highly acclaimed author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982.
• Women worldwide can relate to Cho Nam-joo's compassionate and unflinching depiction of the plight of women in modern-day Korea.
• This book continues the themes put forward in Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, which the New York Times called a "cultural call to arms" for propelling a feminist wave and unleashing a debate about inequality, a novel so divisive that when a member of K-pop band Red Velvet revealed she'd read it, male music fans vowed to burn her photo.
• For fans of Sayaka Murata, Hiromi Kawakami, or Anuja Varghese.