{"product_id":"9781487012120","title":"Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSearing stories that critique the gender pressures and injustices rife in modern Korea from the author of \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEight women. Eight stories. One reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in Cho Nam-Joo’s masterful, razor-sharp prose, \u003cem\u003eMiss Kim Knows\u003c\/em\u003e brings together the lives of eight Korean women, aged ten to eighty. Contained in each of these sensational stories is a microcosm of contemporary Korea, and the challenges and injustices that women face from childhood to old age. As with \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e, the fates of these eight women are the fates of women the world over. And under Cho Nam-Joo’s precise, unveiled gaze, nothing and nobody escapes scrutiny—not even herself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cho Nam-Joo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46518722035934,"sku":"9781487012120","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6f2b4fa8-8700-4445-b76a-8df0e4473f00.jpg?v=1743645734","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/fr\/products\/9781487012120","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}