Cho Nam-Joo

About The Author

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.

Books by Cho Nam-Joo

On the Balance Beam
By Cho Nam-Joo
Translated by Jamie Chang

The new novel from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Once Ko Mani dreamt of becoming a professional gymnast. Life, however, had other plans for her. Today she has an office job and lives with her parents in the same house and poor part of Seoul in which she grew u...

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