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Concerning My Daughter

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Author
Kim Hye-jin
Co-Author
-
Translator
Jamie Chang
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Published Year
2022
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
딸에 대하여
Romanization of Original
Ttare daehayeo
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781529057690
Page
-
File Size
495 KB
Series
OVERDRIVE READ

About the Author

Kim Hye-jin
  • Kim Hye-jin
  • Birth : 1983 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Hye-jin
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김혜진
  • ISNI : 000000047905924X
  • Works : 28
About the Original Work
딸에 대하여
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  • English(English)

The Prize-winning International Bestseller
When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family.
But when Green turns up with her girlfriend Lane in tow, her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome Lane into her home. In fact, she can barely bring herself to be civil. Having centred her life on her husband and child, her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Her daughter's involvement in a case of unfair dismissal involving gay colleagues from the university where she works is similarly strange to her.
And yet when the care home where she works insists that she lower her standard of care for an elderly dementia patient who has no family, who travelled the world as a successful diplomat, who chose not to have children, Green's mother cannot accept it. Why should not having chosen a traditional life mean that your life is worth nothing at all?
In Concerning My Daughter, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang, Kim Hye-jin lays bare our most universal fears on ageing, death and isolation to offer, finally, a paean to love in all its forms.
'An admirably nuanced portrait of prejudice . . . one that boldly takes on the daunting task of humanizing someone whose prejudice has made her cruel.' - The New York Times

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