Concerning My Daughter
(Sprache: Englisch)
Told in a brutally honest voice that at times simmers with impotent rage, Kim Hye-jin's Concerning My Daughter taps into the complexities of mother-daughter dynamics, but also the systemic issues and obstacles that LGBTQ communities face in heteronormative societies.
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Told in a brutally honest voice that at times simmers with impotent rage, Kim Hye-jin's Concerning My Daughter taps into the complexities of mother-daughter dynamics, but also the systemic issues and obstacles that LGBTQ communities face in heteronormative societies.
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When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family.But when Green turns up with her girlfriend, Lane, in tow, her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome Lane into her home. In fact, she can barely bring herself to be civil. Having centred her life on her husband and child, her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Her daughter's involvement in a case of unfair dismissal involving gay colleagues from the university where she works is similarly strange to her.
And yet when the care home where she works insists that she lower her standard of care for an elderly dementia patient who has no family, who travelled the world as a successful diplomat, who chose not to have children, Green's mother cannot accept it. Why should not having chosen a traditional life mean that your life is worth nothing at all?
in Concerning My Daughter, Kim Hye-jin lays bare our most universal fears on ageing, death, and isolation, to offer finally a paean to love in all its forms.
Autoren-Porträt von Kim Hye-jin
Kim Hye-jin was born in Daegu, Korea, in 1983. She debuted in 2012 when her story `Chicken Run¿ won Dong-A Ilbös Spring Literary Award. She won the Joongang Novel Prize for Joongang Station, and the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature for Concerning My Daughter.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kim Hye-jin
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2022, Main Market Ed., 176 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 21,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Jamie Chang
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1529057671
- ISBN-13: 9781529057676
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
An admirably nuanced portrait of prejudice . . . one that boldly takes on the daunting task of humanizing someone whose prejudice has made her cruel. Imogen West Knights The New York Times
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