Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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.
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It was an okay read. The synopsis makes it seem that it is about Kim Jiyoung and her dissociative identity disorder but, it isn't. It is about her life and what lead up to it. That is interesting but, it wasn't want I was expecting it to be. The book is a quick read.
Ainda me faltam umas 25 páginas para terminar mas acredito que não vá alterar o que tenho a dizer sobre ele. Não consigo dar mais do que 3,5⭐️s a este livro porque me retirou o prazer da leitura de uma forma absurda! Parece que estou a ler um livro de história ou de não ficção. Acho que em parte é o estilo de escrita coreano que é muito parado e mastigado, o que em alguns livros até pode funcionar, mas neste caso torna a experiência de leitura muito aborrecida. Se gostei de algumas coisas que li? sim, mas no geral os factos apresentados no livro (porque me parece tudo muito facto e pouca ficção) já me são familiares e por isso sinto que não aprendi propriamente nada de novo nem fiz qualquer tipo de desenvolvimento pessoal, ou seja, este livro não me acrescentou quase nada e isso diz tudo.
Although this is a work of fiction, it is clearly based on facts and statistics in South Korea. This is a concise novella on the ongoing gender politics in Korea. This book explains why the birth rate in Korea is one of the lowest in the developed world.
The chapter where she talks about how she has to sacrifice her entire life when she has a child while her husband thinks that he will too by only seeing his friends less, still makes me mad.
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