Kim Jiyoung, born 1982

Type

Book

Authors

Cho, Nam-ju

Chang, Jamie

ISBN 13

9781631498671

Tags

Neurasteni, Korea (South), Wives, Sex discrimination against women, Kvinnoförtryck, Hustrur, Romaner, Neurasthenia, Sydkorea, Fiction

Description

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny. In a tidy apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, millennial “everywoman” Kim Jiyoung spends her days caring for her infant daughter. But strange symptoms appear: Jiyoung begins to impersonate the voices of other women, dead and alive. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist. Jiyoung narrates her story to this doctor―from her birth to parents who expected a son to elementary school teachers who policed girls’ outfits to male coworkers who installed hidden cameras in women’s restrooms. But can her psychiatrist cure her, or even discover what truly ails her? “A social treatise as well as a work of art”-- Alexandra Alter, New York Times

Biblio Notes

Notes:
Includes reading group guide.

Första engelska upplaga 2020

Translated from the Korean

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