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Kim Hye-jin: Concerning My Daughter review - room for complication

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Article: https://theartsdesk.com/books/kim-hye-jin-concerning-my-daughter-review-room-complication
Journal: The Arts Desk
Issued Date: May 27, 2022
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
City: London
Book: Concerning My Daughter
Writer: Kim Hye-jin
Translator: Jamie Chang

About the Author

Kim Hye-jin
Birth : 1983 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Hye-jin
Family Name : Kim
Korean Name : 김혜진
ISNI : 000000047905924X
Works : 28

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English(English)

In this best-selling Korean novella, recently translated into English by Jamie Chang, Kim Hye-jin offers us the perspective of a Korean mother. It’s narrated entirely from the perspective of a woman of around 60 who has a daughter in her thirties and focuses on her inability to understand what her daughter, Green, wants from life and why she’s decided to live openly as a lesbian with her partner Lane: “Gay? The word rushes into my head and shoots through without permission. Words come to me so violently, without warning, before Lane can say another word, I quickly manage to correct her. My daughter is not that kind of person.”

Translated Books28 See More

Japanese(日本語) Book Available
娘について
Kim Hye-jin et al / 김혜진 / 2019
Japanese(日本語) Book Available
中央駅
Kim Hye-jin et al / 김혜진 / 2019
Chinese(繁體) Book Available
中央站：失去過往與未來，拋棄時間與空間的無家者
Kim Hye-jin et al / 김혜진 / 2020