Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 -

Cho Nam-Joo

Simon and Schuster UK

2020

176 páginas

5h 52m

ISBN-13: 9781471184307

Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own.

Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night.

Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity.

Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely.

Kim Jiyoung is depressed.

Kim Jiyoung is mad.

Kim Jiyoung is her own woman.

Kim Jiyoung is every woman.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century and raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. Riveting, original and uncompromising, this is the most important book to have emerged from South Korea since Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.

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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.