He is the author of His Father’s Disease, a collection of stories, The House With a Thousand Stories, novel and There is No Good Time for Bad News, a poetry collection. She lives in Korea with her wife and dog.Īruni Kashyap is a writer, translator (from and into Assamese) and academic. She has translated Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo. She won the Joongang Novel Prize for Joongang Station, the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature for Concerning My Daughter and the Daesun Literary Award in 2020 for Worker No.9. In 2012, her story ‘Chicken Run’ won Dong-A Ilbo’s Spring Literary Award. Kim Hye-jin was born in Daegu, Korea, in 1983. Elegantly translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang, Concerning My Daughter shines a light on all facets of familial love and conflict. Kim Hye-jin taps into the complexities of mother-daughter dynamics while unearthing the mechanisms of violence that target LGBTQ communities in traditional societies. Outraged, Green’s mother begins to reconsider the unfair consequences of choosing one’s own path. Meanwhile, the nursing home where she works insists that she lower her standard of care for Jen, an elderly dementia patient who traveled the world as a successful diplomat, chose not to have children, and has no family. Green’s involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles. Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter’s definition of family is not one she can accept. But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family. When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Get yourself a copy of the book! ( Click here to purchase the book online ) Friendly discussion about the novel, Concerning My Daughter written by Kim Hye-jin and translated from the Korean by Jamie Chung.

Concerning my daughter