Name: Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories : The sensational new work from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
SKU: 61996486
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Author: Cho Nam-joo
ISBN: 9781398522930

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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories : The sensational new work from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cho Nam-joo

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Year

2024

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781398522930

Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories : The sensational new work from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Cho Nam-joo (Author) · Simon and Schuster · Paperback

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Synopsis "Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories : The sensational new work from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982"

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.

Cho Nam-joo

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Cho Nam-joo (Seoul, 1978) is a Korean writer. Before becoming a mass phenomenon in her country, she graduated in Sociology and worked for ten years as a television screenwriter. Her first two novels, When You Listen Carefully (2011) and For Comaneci (2016), achieved critical acclaim and received multiple awards. Her first novel translated into Spanish and published by Alfaguara, Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (2019) became a phenomenon among the audience in her country and was a finalist for the National Book Award and made into a movie in 2019.

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