Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

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Cho Nam-joo: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (2020, Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company)

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Published Aug. 23, 2020 by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company.

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978-1-63149-670-7
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A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.

Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old “millennial everywoman,” she has recently left her white-collar desk job—in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time—as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women—alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist.

In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung’s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist—a narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Born …

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Es aceptable porque es una lectura bastante amena, pero centrarse en unas situaciones concretas sin mostrar correctamente el contexto histórico lo único que consigue es que busques en otras fuentes para complementar, y a la vez hace que cuestiones la finalidad del libro. Ya que aunque es ficción, se hace para mostrar algo real que es pasado y, por ahora, presente.