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Apartment Women: A Novel

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內容簡介 《拿刀的老太太》作者、《紐約時報》年度選書作家帶來一部原創且震撼的故事，探討家庭、婚姻以及母職的文化期望，描繪四位女性在首爾郊區一處政府運營的公寓裡如何以戲劇性且意想不到的方式相互交織的生活。當悠珍（Yojin）和丈夫、女兒搬進「夢想未來試點公寓」時，她準備好展開新生活。這個位於首爾郊區的實驗性社區是政府為提升國家出生率而推動的計劃。和其他鄰居一樣，悠珍也同意在未來十年內再生至少兩個孩子。然而，自搬入那天起，悠珍就對這裡強加的社區精神感到不安。隨著社區托育服務啟動，其他家長也逐漸露出真實面貌。小說《公寓女子》追蹤這四位住在此處的女性，她們各自懷抱不同的理想和信念。她們能找到和平共處的方法嗎？還是從一開始，社會對父母職責的文化期望已經讓她們陷入困境？這是一部由獲獎作家創作的尖銳社會小說，敏銳地揭示了母職勞動中的不平衡，挑戰「一個孩子要靠一個村子來養育」的古老觀念。*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*From the New York Times Notable author of The Old Woman with the Knifecomes a bracingly original story of family, marriage and the cultural expectations of motherhood, about four women whose lives intersect in dramatic and unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex outside SeoulWhen 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 neighbors, 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 colors. Apartment Women 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 the cultural expectations around parenthood stacked against them from the start?A trenchant social novel from an award-winning author, Apartment Women incisively illuminates the unspoken imbalance of women’s parenting labor, challenging the age-old assumption that “it takes a village” to raise a child.

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各界推薦 Review“Reading this incisive, delicate and wholly original book, I found that words like ‘family’, ‘neighbor’, ‘nature’, and ‘community’ no longer evoked warm and bountiful images in me. They gave me a chill. And I know that this is reality.”—Cho Nam-joo, author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982“Gu Byeong-mo’s Apartment Women is a sharp examination of the boundary between the utopic ideals of community and the dystopian realities of late capitalism. The characters—beautifully drawn, full of flaws and wholly human—live side-by-side in a tense intimacy that haunted me long after I put the book down.”—Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, author of A Fire So Wild“Gu Byeong-mo’s novel Apartment Women asks a provocative question. Rebelling against the social norms and conventions, she invites us to look again at things we have taken for granted.”—Hankyoreh Daily“[Gu Byeong-mo] relentlessly reveals the dark side of the word ‘warm community’ that we have so far been using without questioning.”—Korea Herald“Via breezy, engaging storytelling, Gu’s realist novel explores the roles of women, with protagonists who discuss parenting and work-life balance while contending with meeting social, cultural, and societal mores. Readers will eagerly follow this story through to see which couples, if any, succeed in meeting the concept behind this distinctive living situation. A good pick for book clubs.”—Library Journal“Meticulously translated by prize-winning Kim, Gu’s bitingly perceptive observations about womanhood, wifehood, and motherhood adroitly provoke acute feelings of breathtaking claustrophobia amidst stifling societal expectations.”—Booklist"Piercing... Keenly portrays the toll taken by gendered expectations. This is a perceptive novel of motherhood’s double binds."—Publishers Weekly

作者介紹

作者介紹 Gu Byeong-moGu Byeong-mo an award-winning author. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she now resides in Jinju, South Korea, with her family. The Old Woman with the Knife is her first book to be translated into English.

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最佳賣點 : 一部原創且震撼的故事，探討家庭、婚姻以及母職的文化期望，描繪四位女性在首爾郊區一處政府運營的公寓裡如何以戲劇性且意想不到的方式相互交織的生活。

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