Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 -

Cho Nam-Joo

Anansi International

2020

163 páginas

5h 26m

ISBN-10: 1487006993

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s.
Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation:
At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother.
In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime.
In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night.
In university, she is a good student who doesn't get put forward for internships by her professor.
In the office, she is an exemplary employee who is overlooked for promotion by her manager.
At home, she is a wife who has given up her career to take care of her husband and her baby.
Kim Ji-young is depressed.
Kim Ji-young has started acting out.
Kim Ji-young is her own woman.
Kim Ji-young is insane.
Kim Ji-young is sent by her husband to a psychiatrist.
This is his clinical assessment of the everywoman in contemporary Korea.

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5 (Perfeito)

Executado com perfeição, Kim Ji-young, Born 1982, provoca no leitor indignação, angústia e frustração. Nos colocando sob as lentes da Jiyoung, uma mulher sul coreana, que acompanhamos desde sua tenra infância até o amadurecimento, em que cada fase de sua trajetória é marcada pelo extremo sexismo presente na sociedade coreana. Uma leitura muito fluida, na qual é impossível não sentir empatia pela personagem e outras mulheres que a acompanham, sem dúvidas uma obra que merece ser amplamente divulgada e discutida.