Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

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Publication Year:
2024

ISBN-13: 9781487012137

<p><strong>Searing stories that critique the gender pressures and injustices rife in modern Korea from the author of <em>Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982</em></strong></p>

<p>Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Written in Cho Nam-Joo’s masterful, razor-sharp prose, <em>Miss Kim Knows</em> 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 <em>Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982</em>, 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.</p>