FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG BORN 1982 ' There is laughter and joy to be found in these
pages along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with
tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them.' The
Observer ‘A thought-provoking nuanced read’ Sarah Manning Red ' Dazzling prose'
Elle Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. 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 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.
