Joint by Joint
Clare Bucknell: Gu Byeong-mo, 1 December 2022
The Old Woman with the Knife
by Gu Byeong-mo, translated by Chi-Young Kim.
Canongate, 281 pp., £14.99, March 2022,978 1 83885 643 4 Show More
by Gu Byeong-mo, translated by Chi-Young Kim.
Canongate, 281 pp., £14.99, March 2022,
“... we recognise from contemporary Korean feminist fiction: the title character of Cho Nam-joo’s Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (2016), for instance, with her pointedly average experiences of harassment and workplace sexism; or Yeong-hye, the housewife in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007), described approvingly by her husband as ‘the most run-of-the-mill woman in ... ”
