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Kim Jiyoung Born 1982

by Cho Nam-Joo · 2016

Literary Fiction · ranked #169 in category

Kim Jiyoung is a 33-year-old South Korean woman who has quit her job to raise her daughter. Her psychiatrist's clinical account of her life, told in the third person, is a systemic record of everything Korean society required of a woman from birth — the sexism at school, at work, in marriage, from strangers. Published in Korea in 2016, it became a global feminist phenomenon.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2016 · 2010s
Author
Cho Nam-Joo
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