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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
The multi-million-copy-selling international best seller.
Ms Kim Jiyoung is a sibling made to share a room with her sister while their little brother gets a room of his own.
Ms Kim Jiyoung is a schoolgirl who has to line up behind the boys in the lunch queue. Ms Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night.
Ms Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships. Ms Kim Jiyoung excels at her job but gets overlooked for promotion. Ms Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity.
Ms Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely.
Ms Kim Jiyoung is depressed.
Ms Kim Jiyoung is mad.
Ms Kim Jiyoung is her own woman.
Ms Kim Jiyoung is every woman.
Ms Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation which has got the whole world talking. The life story of one young woman born halfway across the globe at the end of the 20th century raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression which 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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- Mrs Sarah Birch
- 17-04-21
Why a male narrator?
This is a book about gender equality and it gives voice to a South Korean woman - why is it narrated by a man??!!!
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- Lucinda
- 24-01-21
Great story, bad choice of narrator
I really hope this audiobook gets re-recorded with a British / American - Korean female actor. I found it really hard to get into the book due to the narrator, it just didn’t sit right and I found him really difficult to follow. I think it let the audiobook down. I’m going to return to the story and read the paper copy.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-01-22
Harrowing and sadly true
I lived in Korea for 5 years and from what I saw and heard from my Korean female friends this is all true, which makes it harrowing and sad.
Some people have commented on why the narrator was a man - you have to listen to the last chapter to find out why the narrator is a man. There is a reason. A good sad ending. Makes me sigh. When will it change?
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- 21-04-21
Not every women, BUT EVERY MAN SHOULD READ THIS
This is not just the story of Kim Ji Young. It is the story of many women, and all the things they wish they've said but have not because they have been indirectly silenced. It disgusts me that we live in a world like this because yes, this story is still happening every day, every hour, every minute to a woman around the world.
A must read, especially to MEN to get to their senses a little bit. And don't go with not everyone is like this - until everyone has changed, the change has not occured.
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- Dipta Light
- 09-06-20
Revealing
I am starting to take a greater interest in Korean culture recently due to my new daughter in law being Korean.
This is very informative, interesting, sad and moving. I think it says a lot about various cultural 'norms' not just Korean.
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- Jat
- 04-04-23
Deceptively simple and hard hitting themes
Don’t let the easy prose and pleasant unfolding of the story fool you. This is big themes and heavy hitting stuff presented all nice and simple, just like the main character herself.
I personally didn’t have an issue with a male narrator on the audio; yes it was an interesting choice but I liked that it was a male voice dominating her experiences, seemed fitting considering the topics and themes at play.
I listened again immediately after completing it and enjoyed it even more second time around.
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- Lou
- 30-03-23
Interesting
Feel validated by some parts of the universal woman experience, and upset by the way some societies are set up to disadvantage/exclude half of the population.
Really would have preferred a women narrator for the subject matter, even more ideally a Korean woman narrating, as takes you out of the story to have a British male narrator (even though he's a great and clear narrator with a nice voice, it seems a really ill fit for this specific book)
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- Claudia
- 10-11-20
A story that may stay with you
This is a story told quite simply with no huge events or twists and turns. Just one woman's life experiences. However I found myself thinking about it long after I'd finished listening to it. Beautifully and insightfully written.
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- Sarah M.
- 16-05-23
like looking into a mirror
beautifully written, a recount of a daily struggles for women, not just in Korea. highly recommend.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-05-23
I don't get the fuss
I don't get the fuss over this book. Yes the culture in Korea is awful from Western point if view but it's an old culture and changes slowly. And it's not so much better in all Western countries either where motherhood anyway often shortens women's careers. Ok book but not worth the outrage and fuss
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- Chen
- 09-04-20
a must-read for every person
This book will break your heart... and still, you have to listen to it as it tells you the story of every woman in this modern world... even if motherhood is not on the road ahead, it made me face the struggles in the workplace and family life that I have to push away to the back of my head in order to keep going.
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