가출 Run Away

K-Fiction Series

by Cho Nam-Joo, Jeon Miseli (Translator)

Genres: Asia

97 pages, Paperback

Published November 9, 2018

About the author

Associated Names:
* 조남주 (Korean)
* Cho Nam-Joo (English)
* 趙南柱 (Chinese)
* โชนัมจู (Thai)
* チョ・ナムジュ (Japanese)

Cho Nam-joo is a former television scriptwriter. In the writing of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 she drew partly on her own experience as a woman who quit her job to stay at home after giving birth to a child.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is her third novel. It has had a profound impact on gender inequality and discrimination in Korean society, and has been translated into 18 languages.

Reviews

[Manon「マノン」 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting reflection about patriarchy and how the father shaped one’s family. We follow a nameless narrator whose father left one day. Cho focuses on the remaining family members and how their relationships with one another are shifting now that the core of the typical Korean family, the father, is no longer there.

[Olga]

[read in English]