Miss Kim knows : and other stories
Call Number
- FICTION CHO (CEN)
Edition
First American edition.
Languages
Translated from the Korean.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a dicishion of W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Physical Description
218 pages ; 21 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"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 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 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."--
Notes
Translation of: Uriga sseun geot.
Originally published in Korea by Minumsa Publishing Co., Ltd., Seoul. 2021. First published in Great Britain by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2023.
Contents
- Under the plum tree
- Dead set
- Runaway
- Miss Kim Knows
- Dear Hyunnam Oppa
- Night of Aurora
- Grown-up girl
- Puppy love, 2020.