Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is an absolutely furious short novel about sexism in South Korea, and while its incidents and statistics are specific to that country, it can stand in for how badly half of the world’s human population commonly treats the other half, often without even noticing. The book opens with what appears to …
Tag: South Korea
May 10 2024
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
- By Doug Merrill in Asia, Doug, Fiction, Gender
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May 10, 2024
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Dec 02 2020
Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-nan
- By Doreen Sheridan in Asia, Doreen, Literature, Short Stories
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December 2, 2020
Happy December, everyone! Let’s start the month with a chilling read! I have a bad habit of not remembering why I picked up certain volumes, not helped by the often considerable lag time between me deciding I want to read a book and me actually getting the opportunity to read it. So I vaguely recall …
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