From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes a bold and ambitious novel set in a dystopian future that is all too believable. Parasite meets 1984.

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.