Saha: A Novel

TIME • Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2022\nFrom the international best-selling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes this chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix’s Squid Game. In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates.\nControlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest, richest nation in the world. But it is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots, and those who have the very least―who aren’t even considered citizens―live on the Saha Estates. Residents of Saha must squat in moldy units without plumbing or electricity and can only find work doing harsh labor. For many, the apartment complex is a bleak haven for escaping even bleaker pasts―as it was for Jin-kyung and her brother, Do-Kyung, who showed up one day sopping wet and shivering.\nNo one is shocked when a lowlife like Do-Kyung becomes the main suspect in Su’s―a citizen’s―murder. But then Do-Kyung disappears. Isolated in a barren Saha unit, Jin-Kyung makes a choice: she will finally confront a system hellbent on erasing her brother’s existence. To find him, she must rely on her tightlipped neighbors, from the mysterious janitor known as “Old Man,” to Granny Konnim, the community gardener and reluctant midwife, to Woomi, an unwitting test subject at the local clinic. On her quest for the truth, Jin-kyung will uncover a reality far darker than she could have imagined.\nWritten in Cho Nam-Joo’s signature sharp prose, brilliantly translated by Jamie Chang, Saha is a chilling portrait of what happens when we finally unmask our oppressors.

Literature & Fiction

Nam-Joo, Cho

Literary

Liveright

In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest, richest nation in the world. But it is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots, and those who have the very least--who aren't even considered citizens--live on the Saha Estates. Residents of Saha must squat in moldy units without plumbing or electricity and can only find work doing harsh labor. For many, the apartment complex is a bleak haven for escaping even bleaker pasts--as it was for Jin-kyung and her brother, Do-Kyung, who showed up one day sopping wet and shivering. No one is shocked when a lowlife like Do-Kyung becomes the main suspect in Su's--a citizen's--murder. But then Do-Kyung disappears. Isolated in a barren Saha unit, Jin-Kyung makes a choice: she will finally confront a system hellbent on erasing her brother's existence. To find him, she must rely on her tightlipped neighbors, from the mysterious janitor known as "Old Man," to Granny Konnim, the community gardener and reluctant midwife, to Woomi, an unwitting test subject at the local clinic. On her quest for the truth, Jin-kyung will uncover a reality far darker than she could have imagined. Written in Cho Nam-Joo's signature sharp prose, brilliantly translated by Jamie Chang, Saha is a chilling portrait of what happens when we finally unmask our oppressors.

Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories

Saha

Genre Fiction

Simon&Schuster

Nach ihrem feministischen Weltbestseller »Kim Jiyoung, geboren 1982« widmet sich die koreanische Autorin Cho Nam-Joo weiterhin dem Schicksal von Frauen in ihrem Land, die unter den patriarchalen Strukturen leiden. Acht Frauenleben werden beleuchtet und wieder gelingt es der Autorin, dass sich Frauen weltweit angesprochen fühlen.\n»Miss Kim weiß Bescheid« versammelt die Leben von acht koreanischen Frauen im Alter von 10 und 80 Jahren. Jede einzelne dieser stellvertretenden Frauenbiografien wird vor einem aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Thema in Korea verhandelt: das heimliche Filmen von Frauen in der Öffentlichkeit, Hatespeech und Cybermobbing auf Social-Media-Plattformen, häusliche Gewalt, Gaslighting, weibliche Identität im Alter und die Ungleichbehandlung am Arbeitsplatz. Auch sich selbst, die plötzlich weltbekannte Autorin, nimmt sie ins Visier. Ihr Erfolg ermöglicht ihr einerseits, ihr Leben als Schriftstellerin komfortabel zu führen, andererseits lässt sie der Hass, der ihr vor allem im Netz begegnet, nicht kalt. Cho Nam-Joos meisterhaftes Können besteht in der glasklaren Sprache, in der sie ihre Prosa verfasst und gleichzeitig in dem genauen Blick auf die Ungerechtigkeiten Koreas, den sie mit nichts verschleiert, sondern im Gegenteil messerscharf zu Papier bringt. Wie schon bei »Kim Jiyoung, geboren 1982« sind auch die Schicksale dieser acht Frauen nicht annähernd so weit von uns weg, wie wir meinen und hoffen.

Miss kim knows and other stories

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.\nKim 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.\nKim 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.\nKim Jiyoung has started acting strangely.\nKim Jiyoung is depressed.\nKim Jiyoung is mad.\nKim Jiyoung is her own woman.\nKim Jiyoung is every woman.\nKim 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.

Kim jiyoung, born 1982

The runaway bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the most important book to have come out of South Korea since Han Kang’s The Vegetarian. 
Kim Jiyoung is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. 
Kim Jiyoung 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 Jiyoung is depressed. 
Kim Jiyoung has started to act out. 
Kim Jiyoung is her own woman. 
Kim Jiyoung is insane. 
Kim Jiyoung’s husband sends her to see a psychiatrist. 
This is his clinical assessment of the everywoman in contemporary Korea.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Anansi International

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 in 1982 and given the most common name for Korean baby girls, Jiyoung quickly becomes the unfavored sister to her princeling little brother. Always, her behavior is policed by the male figures around her―from the elementary school teachers who enforce strict uniforms for girls, to the coworkers who install a hidden camera in the women’s restroom and post their photos online. In her father’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s fault that men harass her late at night; in her husband’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s duty to forsake her career to take care of him and their child―to put them first.
Jiyoung’s painfully common life is juxtaposed against a backdrop of an advancing Korea, as it abandons “family planning” birth control policies and passes new legislation against gender discrimination. But can her doctor flawlessly, completely cure her, or even discover what truly ails her?
Rendered in minimalist yet lacerating prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 sits at the center of our global #MeToo movement and announces the arrival of writer of international significance.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel

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Saha: A Novel

Saha: A Novel

Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories

Saha

Miss kim knows and other stories

Miss kim knows and other stories

Kim jiyoung, born 1982

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Saha: A Novel

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel