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520 Longlisted • National Book Award (Translated
Literature) A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and
Editors' Choice Selection Best Books of 2020 — TIME
Magazine, Chicago Public Library Vulture • Best
Books of the Year (So Far) 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&
#8212;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&
#8212;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.
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