Book review: Kang Hwagil’s Another Person is an incendiary feminist thriller set in South Korea

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A book for lovers of Cho Nam-joo’s Kim Ji-young, Born 1982. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Jina is told she has “ruined a good man’s life” when she brings her senior to court for assaulting her five times. First published in 2017 – the year after Cho Nam-joo’s best-selling novel Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 sparked a feminist campaign in South Korea – Kang’s novel can be read in the same vein of feminist fiction that is unflinching in its depiction of toxic masculinity and women’s experiences.

In the hands of translator Clare Richards – one of the translators behind the best-selling Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record Of BTS – the multiple voices shine through with their distinct registers.

 

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