Cho Nam-Joo has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 8 ratings. The most-rated is Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Summary
Vulture Best Books of the Year (So Far) A New York Times Editors Choice Selection A fierce international best seller 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 30-something-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.
©2016 Cho Nam-joo (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Kim Jiyoung, geboren 1982
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Der internationale Bestseller aus Südkorea zeigt die junge Frau Kim Jiyoung auf ihrem Weg zur Emanzipation in einer von Ungleichheit und Unterdrückung geprägten Gesellschaftsordnung. Cho Nam-joos Roman, eindringlich gelesen von Nele Rosetz und Felix von Manteuffel, erzählt das Schicksal einer Mittdreißigerin, die in einer kleinen, aufgeräumten Wohnung am Rande der Metropole Seoul lebt. Kim Jiyoung hat erst kürzlich ihren Job im Marketing aufgegeben, um sich um ihre neugeborene Tochter zu kümmern - wie es von koreanischen Frauen erwartet wird. Doch schon bald zeigt sie seltsame Symptome, die ihren Ehemann, ihre Eltern und Schwiegereltern beunruhigen: Jiyoung wird zur Stimme anderer Frauen, seien sie lebendig oder tot. Als die Psychose sich verschlimmert, schickt sie ihr unglücklicher Ehemann zu einem Psychiater. Dort erfahren wir Jiyoungs Geschichte und von einem Leben, das stets von Männern überwacht und gelenkt wurde.
©2021 / 2016 Cho Nam-joo / Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln. Übersetzung von Ki-Hyang Lee (P)2021 Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin
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Kim Ji-young, nacida en 1982 [ Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982]
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Su nombre es Kim Ji-young. Tiene 33 años y el nombre más común de Corea. Su historia ha incendiado Asia entera. «Ni siquiera yo sé si me casaré o si tendré hijos. O puede que me muera antes. ¿Por qué tengo que renunciar a lo que quiero ser o hacer por un futuro que no sé si llegará o no?» Esta novela ha pasado de ser la breve historia de una joven coreana a convertirse en un terremoto que ha sacudido a las mujeres de medio mundo. Kim Ji-young (que lleva el nombre más común entre las mujeres coreanas nacidas en 1982) es aparentemente una mujer como cualquier otra, con una juventud sin pena ni gloria, siempre a la sombra. Todo se retuerce cuando, de repente, Kim empieza a hablar con las voces de su madre, de una amiga desaparecida, de otras muchas mujeres. Lo que parecía una broma adquiere el tono de una respuesta, de una insurrección y, para los demás, el tono de una enfermedad. Este libro ha sido una embestida para el panorama literario de todos los países en los que se ha publicado. Bajo su aparente sencillez, hay una sensación de peligro que palpita a lo largo de todas sus páginas y que ha abierto una grieta en los estándares de la literatura contemporánea. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2016 Cho Nam-joo (P)2019 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.