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Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 / Cho Nam-joo ; translated by Jamie Chang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First American editionDescription: 162 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781631496707
  • 1631496700
Other title:
  • Palsip Yi Nyeon Saeng Kim Jiyeong
Uniform titles:
  • 82-yŏnsaeng Kim Chi-yŏng. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 895.73/5 23
LOC classification:
  • PL994.17.N36 A61613 2020
Contents:
Autumn, 2015 -- Childhood, 1982-1994 -- Adolescence, 1995-2000 -- Early adulthood, 2001-2011 -- Marriage, 2012-2015 -- 2016.
Summary: "The runaway bestseller that helped launch Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul, Kim Jiyoung-a millennial 'everywoman'-spends her days caring for her infant daughter. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate the voices of other women-dead and alive, both known and unknown to her. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that very person. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, Jiyoung's concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist, who listens to her narrate her own life story-from her birth to a family who expected a son, to elementary school teachers who policed girls' outfits, to male coworkers who installed hidden cameras in women's restrooms and posted the photos online. But can her doctor cure her, or even discover what truly ails her? Rendered in eerie prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 announces the arrival of a major international writer"--Provided by publisher.
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Autumn, 2015 -- Childhood, 1982-1994 -- Adolescence, 1995-2000 -- Early adulthood, 2001-2011 -- Marriage, 2012-2015 -- 2016.

"The runaway bestseller that helped launch Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul, Kim Jiyoung-a millennial 'everywoman'-spends her days caring for her infant daughter. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate the voices of other women-dead and alive, both known and unknown to her. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that very person. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, Jiyoung's concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist, who listens to her narrate her own life story-from her birth to a family who expected a son, to elementary school teachers who policed girls' outfits, to male coworkers who installed hidden cameras in women's restrooms and posted the photos online. But can her doctor cure her, or even discover what truly ails her? Rendered in eerie prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 announces the arrival of a major international writer"--Provided by publisher.

Translated from the Korean.

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