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Miss Kim Knows

And Other Stories

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Miss Kim Knows

Written by: Cho Nam-joo, Jamie Chang - translator
Narrated by: Mei Mei Macleod
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One of TIME's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2024: "A thought-provoking anthology for the #MeToo age."

From the international best-selling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, a collection exploring the intimacies of contemporary Korean womanhood.

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Written in Cho Nam-joo’s signature razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows follows eight women as they confront how gender shapes and orders their lives. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. 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. As with Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, these microcosmic stories prove eerily relatable under Cho Nam-joo’s precise, unveiled gaze, offering another captivating read from an essential voice in fiction.

“There is mischief and glee to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them.” (Hephzibah Anderson, The Guardian)

©2021 Cho Nam-Joo English translation copyright © 2023 Jamie Chang (P)2025 Simon & Schuster UK Ltd Anthologies & Short Stories Asian Creators Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction
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I loved every story of this book. The narrator’s voice and tempo are so comforting and a good fit for the book.

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