![]() ![]() This novel is about the banality of the evil that is systemic misogyny. But then, my experiences are ordinary, as ordinary as the everyday horrors suffered by the book's protagonist, Jiyoung. Her final chapter, "2016," written as Jiyoung's therapist's report-his claims of being "aware" and "enlightened" only damning him further as an entitled troll-proves to be narrative genius.", laid bare my own Korean childhood - and, let's face it, my Western adulthood too - forcing me to confront traumatic experiences that I'd tried to chalk up as nothing out of the ordinary. Cho's matter-of-fact delivery underscores the pervasive gender imbalance, while just containing the empathic rage. ![]() Cho's narrative is part bildungsroman and part Wikipedia entry (complete with statistics-heavy footnotes). ![]() ![]() "Already an international best-seller, television scriptwriter Cho's debut novel has been credited with helping to 'launch Korea's new feminist movement.' The fact that gender inequity is insidiously pervasive throughout the world will guarantee that this tale has immediate resonance, and its smoothly accessible, albeit British English vernacular-inclined, translation by award-winning translator Chang will ensure appreciative Anglophone audiences. ![]()
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