Name: Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories
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Author: Nam-Joo, Cho ; Chang, Jamie
ISBN: 9781324095316

portada Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cho Nam-joo

Translated by

Jamie Chang

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781324095316

Synopsis "Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories"

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 signature razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows follows eight women, ranging from preteens to octogenarians, as they confront how gender shapes and orders their lives. In "Under the Plum Tree," Mallyeo feels existential as she bears witness to her sister's final days; in "Dear Hyunnam Oppa," a college graduate musters the courage to leave her partner; and in "Grown-Up Girl," a mother finally confronts her generational biases for the sake of her daughter. "Despite her characters' hardship and disappointments, there is mischief and glee to be found in these pages" (Hephzibah Anderson, Observer), resulting in another riveting read from an essential voice in world literature.

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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