An overnight sensation in South Korea (the novel has been translated into many languages, including English by the exceptionally talented Jamie Chang), it has given voice to the feelings and experience of millions of women around the world, and is widely accredited with helping to spark a national movement for equality in Japan. Now there is Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, a multi-million copy international bestseller by South Korean author, Cho Nam-Joo. In America, one woman spoke out to reclaim her truth, and eventually she and had her fellow warriors brought down one of Hollywood’s longest standing predators. Revolutions often begin with a single shot ringing out across acres of tense silence or a lone voice raised in the opposite direction to the swarm of noise around it.
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