Cho Nam-joo is a former television scriptwriter. In the writing of this book she drew partly on�her own experience�as a woman who quit her job to stay at home after giving birth to a child.�Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982�is her third novel. It has had a profound impact on gender inequality and discrimination in Korean society, and has been translated into 18 languages.
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