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Kim Ji-young lives in a small apartment on the outskirts of Seoul with her family. She is a thirty-year-old modern woman who recently quit her job to devote herself entirely to raising her newborn daughter, making a choice that is considered socially obvious for many Korean women.
However, she soon begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, her parents, and her in-laws: she "transforms" into the lives of other women, both living and dead, known and unknown.
As she sinks deeper into this obsession, her husband sends her to a psychiatrist. The entirety of Ji-young's life then begins to unfold through a cold, eerily fragmented third-person narration, infused with disparate elements of frustration, persistence, and submission.
Born in 1982 and having the most common girl's name in Korea, Ji-young soon becomes the neglected older sister of a boy who grows up like a little prince. Her behavior is constantly policed by the male figures around her, while even her own father blames her when men harass her late at night.
A powerful international bestseller, which stood as a starting point for the new feminist movement in Korea, follows the mental decline of a woman who confronts entrenched misogyny.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Cho Nam-ju
- Publisher
- Minoas
- Original Title
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
- Publishers
- Minoas
- Type
- Prose
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 180
- Release Date
- 01/01/2022
- Publication Date
- 2022
- Dimensions
- 14x20.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180218312
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