Your Neighbour's Table

From the award-winning author of The Old Woman with the Knife comes the thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood, through four women whose lives intersect in unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex outside Seoul When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she''s ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbours, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years. Yet, from the day she arrives, Yojin feels uneasy about the community spirit thrust upon her. Her concerns grow as communal child care begins and the other parents show their true colours. Your Neighbour''s Table traces the lives of four women in the apartments, all with different aspirations and beliefs. Will they find a way to live peacefully? Or are society''s expectations stacked against them from the start?

Product details

• Authors: Gu Byeong-mo, Byeong-mo Gu, Gu Byeong -Mo
• Assisted by: Chi-Young Kim (Translation), Kim Chi-Young (Translation)
• Publisher: Wildfire
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2024
• EAN: 9781035416479
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3541647-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 214 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction in translation, Feminism & feminist theory, Korean, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, FICTION / Feminist, FICTION / World Literature / Asia (General), Seoul (City)