- Overview
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- Book Intro
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Kim Jin-a only calls the police on her perfect boyfriend and direct manager after he beats her for the fifth time. He is ordered to pay a paltry fine of 3 million KRW. It is a slap on the wrist, she thinks, and he remains her manager at work. Jin-a takes her story to the internet, but when her coworker Kim Mi-yeong reveals to the public that Jin-a had never once footed the bill on her dates and received brand-name gifts from her manager, her supporters begin to turn on her.
@qw1234 “Kim Jin-a is a liar. A total black hole.”
Amidst the flood of abusive comments, Jin-a discovers one that seems to know her past. As she asks herself if she really is worthless, if she is the only person who doesn’t understand why she is in the wrong, Jin-a looks back 12 years into the past to her late friend Yu-ri—who had been known by the insulting nickname “black hole.”
Women are the victims of intimate partner violence, targets of abusive rumors, filers of sexual harassment suits, and patients of STD clinics. The ones driven by trauma to the point of claiming, “I would rather be a rapist than be raped.” Winner of the 2017 Hankyoreh Literary Prize, A Different Person is a calm and collected look at the way women want to become different people. Building on Kang’s anthology A Decent Person, it exposes the dissonance of living as a woman.
- About the Author
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Kang Hwagil
(Vietnamese) Ganghwa-gil, một tiểu thuyết gia đang được chú ý nhiều nhất ở Hàn Quốc, là nhà văn đã mở ra chân trời của thể loại phim kinh dị dành cho nữ trong văn học Hàn Quốc bằng cách hư cấu một cách tinh vi các vấn đề thù hận và bạo lực gây ra cho phụ nữ bằng cách sử dụng ngữ pháp của một bộ phim kinh dị. Năm 2012, truyện nganwsn "căn phòng" được bầu trong hội Văn nghệ tân xuân của báo Kyunghyang. Sáng tác còn có tập tiểu thuyết "Những người tốt" và tiểu thuyết dài "Những người khác".
(English) She started her career when her short story ROOM was elected to the Kyunghyang Spring Literary Contest. There is a collection of short stories, THE GOOD MAN and a full-length novel THE OTHER. She won the Grand Prize in the Hankyoreh Literature Award, the Gu-sang Literature Award, the Young Writer Award in 2017, and the Young Writer Award in 2020.
- Award
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2011 Hankyoreh Literary Prize
- Selection
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2017 Aladin's Book of the Year