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A National Book Award Finalist hailed as "a social treatise as well as a work of art" (Alexandra Alter, New York Times), Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 announced Cho Nam-Joo as a major literary talent. In her signature sharp prose, brilliantly translated by Jamie Chang, Nam-Joo returns with this haunting account of a neglected housing complex in the shadows of Town: a former fishing village bought out by a massive conglomerate. Town is prosperous and safe--but only if you're a citizen with "valuable skills and assets," which the residents of Saha Estates are not.Disenfranchised and tightlipped, the Saha are forced into harsh labor, squatting in moldy units without electricity. Braiding the disparate experiences of the Saha residents--from the reluctant midwife to the unknowing test subject to the separated siblings--into a powerful Orwellian parable, Nam-Joo has crafted a heartbreaking tale of what happens when we finally unmask our oppressors.

In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest, richest nation in the world. But it is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots, and those who have the very least--who aren't even considered citizens--live on the Saha Estates. Residents of Saha must squat in moldy units without plumbing or electricity and can only find work doing harsh labor. For many, the apartment complex is a bleak haven for escaping even bleaker pasts--as it was for Jin-kyung and her brother, Do-Kyung, who showed up one day sopping wet and shivering. No one is shocked when a lowlife like Do-Kyung becomes the main suspect in Su's--a citizen's--murder. But then Do-Kyung disappears. Isolated in a barren Saha unit, Jin-Kyung makes a choice: she will finally confront a system hellbent on erasing her brother's existence. To find him, she must rely on her tightlipped neighbors, from the mysterious janitor known as "Old Man," to Granny Konnim, the community gardener and reluctant midwife, to Woomi, an unwitting test subject at the local clinic. On her quest for the truth, Jin-kyung will uncover a reality far darker than she could have imagined. Written in Cho Nam-Joo's signature sharp prose, brilliantly translated by Jamie Chang, Saha is a chilling portrait of what happens when we finally unmask our oppressors.

Written in Cho Nam-joo's signature razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows follows eight women as they confront how gender shapes and orders their lives. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. 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. As with Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, these microcosmic stories prove eerily relatable under Cho Nam-joo's precise, unveiled gaze, offering another captivating read from an essential voice in fiction. "There is mischief and glee to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them." --Hephzibah Anderson, The Guardian

From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes a bold and ambitious novel set in a dystopian future that is all too believable. Parasite meets 1984.

Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy.Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night. Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn't get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely. Kim Jiyoung is depressed. Kim Jiyoung is mad. Kim Jiyoung is her own woman. Kim Jiyoung is every woman.

One of the most notable novels of the year, hailed by both critics and K-pop stars alike, 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), Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 heralds the arrival of international powerhouse Cho Nam-Joo.

Nominada para el National Book Award En la lista de los 100 libros imprescindibles del 2020 de la revista Time y del New York Times. Su nombre es Kim Ji-young. Tiene 33 a os y el nombre m s com n de Corea. Su historia ha incendiado Asia entera. «Ni siquiera yo s si me casar o si tendr hijos. O puede que me muera antes. Por qu tengo que renunciar a lo que quiero ser o hacer por un futuro que no s si llegar o no? Esta novela ha pasado de ser la breve historia de una joven coreana a convertirse en un terremoto que ha sacudido a las mujeres de medio mundo. Kim Ji-young (que lleva el nombre m s com n entre las mujeres coreanas nacidas en 1982) es aparentemente una mujer como cualquier otra, con una juventud sin pena ni gloria, siempre a la sombra. Todo se retuerce cuando, de repente, Kim empieza a hablar con las voces de su madre, de una amiga desaparecida, de otras muchas mujeres. Lo que parec a una broma adquiere el tono de una respuesta, de una insurrecci n y, para los dem s, el tono de una enfermedad. Este libro ha sido una embestida para el panorama literario de todos los pa ses en los que se ha publicado. Bajo su aparente sencillez, hay una sensaci n de peligro que palpita a lo largo de todas sus p ginas y que ha abierto una grieta en los est ndares de la literatura contempor nea.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Longlisted - National Book Award (Translated Literature) On the Time magazine 100 must-read books of 2020. New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Vulture - Best Books of the Year (So Far) A New York Times Editors Choice Selection 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.

El nuevo e impactante libro de la aclamada autora de Kim Ji-Young, nacida en 1982, el fen meno editorial con 1.500.000 de lectores, finalista del National Book Award. «Una colecci n de relatos rica en color local y que reflexiona sobre su anterior novela feminista, que sacudi a la sociedad surcoreana, y sobre los cambios generacionales de sus compatriotas . -- The Guardian «Junto a otras narrativas socialmente cr ticas surgidas en Corea, como la oscarizada Par sitos, de Bong Joon-ho, sus libros podr an cambiar la historia . -- The Guardian Las ocho mujeres que protagonizan estos relatos tienen edades muy dispares, pero todas se enfrentan a grandes desaf os: el machismo que las circunda a diario, la familia que las silencia, el medio laboral que las discrimina, algunas amistades inconsistentes o el imparable paso del tiempo. En el trasfondo de cada una de estas historias acecha la idea de que cualquiera de ellas pueda ser intercambiable por otra, aniquilando as toda forma de individualidad femenina y convirti ndolas a todas en una an nima se orita Kim, el apellido m s com n del pa s: un personaje fantasmag rico y omnipresente que carga con todas las injusticias que pesan sobre las mujeres en la sociedad contempor nea. Lo que sabe la se orita Kim esboza un fresco feminista de Corea del Sur a trav s de la prosa magistral y afilada de Cho Nam-joo, a quien la cr tica considera ya un referente de la lucha de las mujeres y la voz m s importante que ha surgido en Asia en los ltimos a os. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 "There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them." -- The Observer "A thought-provoking, nuanced read" -- Sarah Manning, Red "Dazzling prose" -- Elle Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. 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 masterful, razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows brings together the lives of eight Korean women, aged 10 to 80. Contained in each of these biographies is a microcosm of contemporary Korea, and the challenges and injustices that women face from childhood to old age. As with Kim Jiyoung, born 1982, 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.