Concerning My Daughter
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Minhee Yeo
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The prize-winning international best seller.
When a mother allows her 30-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family.
But when Green turns up with her girlfriend, Lane, in tow, her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome Lane into her home. In fact, she can barely bring herself to be civil. Having centred her life on her husband and child, her daughter’s definition of family is not one she can accept. Her daughter’s involvement in a case of unfair dismissal involving gay colleagues from the university where she works is similarly strange to her.
And yet when the care home where she works insists that she lower her standard of care for an elderly dementia patient who has no family, who travelled the world as a successful diplomat, who chose not to have children, Green’s mother cannot accept it. Why should not having chosen a traditional life mean that your life is worth nothing at all?
In Concerning My Daughter, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang, Kim Hye-jin lays bare our most universal fears on ageing, death and isolation, to offer finally a paean to love in all its forms.
©2022 Kim Hye-jin and Jamie Chang (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International LimitedCritic reviews
"I can't help but be moved by a story about women meeting, fighting, helping each other, looking after one another, and raising their voices against the prejudice and criticism they are subject to." (Cho Nam-joo, author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982)
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- Miro
- 09-03-23
brilliant narrative arc, splendid performance
At first, I thought the opening was too flat, and I even suspected the translation wasn't good enough. But a great help from the narrator, it entered into intriguing storylines. Applause to the brilliant narrative arc.
If I were a homosexual, my mother would be the same as the protagonist. I felt I was so related to the characters, and the book left me with many emotions, especially from the dementia lady who was a successful diplomat yet dying alone at a care home.
For me, the narrator's performance is as much important as the book itself. Because before the plot fully develops, the narrator's voice is the only convincing thing to keep going. With some audiobooks, I felt so distant from the story because of the unmatched voice of the book. Without a doubt, the narrator and this book were a perfect match.
Huge applause for the narrator's splendid performance. Brava Minhee Yeo!
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