Jjini Advisory
Korean Title: 찌니주의보
Author: Jeong Ji-a (정지아)
Publisher: Changbi (창비)
ISBN: 9788936439996
Paperback | 232쪽 pages | 128*188mm (B6) | 315g
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About This Book
Father's Liberation (Changbi, 2022) captivated the hearts of 400,000 readers with its portrayal of the deep scars of modern Korean history through the earthy spoken language of the southern provinces and a fierce love for humanity. Jeong Ji-a, the writer at the center of that literary phenomenon, returns four years later with her new novel, Jjini Advisory. After establishing herself as a singular storyteller in her previous work, transforming the tragedy of ideology and history into deeply moving humor, she now sets her stage in a remote mountain village called Supyeong, where the average age of its residents is seventy-eight.
While Father's Liberation was a novel about discovering the full complexity of one human being beyond history and ideology through a father’s funeral, Jjini Advisory is a story about learning to see people anew, beyond identity and prejudice, by sharing meals with unfamiliar neighbors. If her previous novel left behind a weighty sadness beneath its uninhibited laughter, this new work creates even richer emotional waves amid a faster, lighter series of commotions.
Heterosexuals and LGBTQ+ people, longtime locals and newcomers from the city, Koreans and immigrant women, young people from the city and elderly residents of the countryside... People who have lived entirely different lives and loved in entirely different ways come together in the same village. They gossip about one another, quarrel, share meals, and before they know it, become neighbors. Their transformation unfolds with remarkable vitality.
Jeong Ji-a’s signature deadpan humor has become even more sly and mischievous, while her warm gaze toward human contradictions and wounds has grown more delicate. Embracing both the familiar emotional texture of a village and the sharp social issues of the present day, this novel has the power to bring readers together in laughter across generations and differences in taste, whether they are longtime fans of Jeong Ji-a or encountering her work for the first time.
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