Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

A 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. Written in Cho Nam Joo’s masterful razor sharp prose, Miss Kim knows brings together the lives of eight Korean women, aged 10 to 80. Contained in each of these biographies is a microcosm of contemporary Korea and the challenges and injustices that women face from childhood to old age. As with Kim Jiyoung, born 1982, the dates 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.