When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter. Her daughter’s involvement in a case of unfair dismissal involving gay colleagues from the university where she works is similarly strange to her.Īnd 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. Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jins debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her. Read 229 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Having centred her life on her husband and child, her daughter’s definition of family is not one she can accept. In fact, she can barely bring herself to be civil. When an ageing mother allows her thirty-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.īut when Green turns up with her girlfriend, Lane, in tow, her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome Lane into her home. 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.

Concerning my daughter by kim hye jin