Your Neighbour's Table
An incisive and timely Korean bestseller about marriage, community and motherhood
$20.69
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
21 October 2025
Summary
‘An important literary piece of feminist activism’
‘Taps into the everyday minutiae of motherhood, baring to all the unspoken labours that women take on both inside and out of parenthood’
‘Really made me reflect on what it actually means to be a part of a community’
‘Given recent news stories this feels like an incredibly relevant read’
From the award-winning Korean author Gu Byeong-m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035416486 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035416484 |
| Author: | Gu Byeong-mo, Chi-Young Kim |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Wildfire |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 21 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 171g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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Critics 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 JI YOUNG BORN IN 1982
Gu Byeong-mo’s Your Neighbour’s Table 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
Under the smooth surface of the table, the readers may perceive the dissonance between the ones who wants to have close and friendly relationship with their neighbours, sharing their daily lives, and the ones who can’t afford it. There are conflicts over delicate issues regarding their community and crossing of the line. The author relentlessly reveals the dark side of the word ‘warm community’ that we have so far been using without questioning. * Korea Herald *
Gu Byeong-mo’s novel Your Neighbour’s Table 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 Newspaper *
The book makes us rethink about problems that stem from child-rearing and caring labour in today’s Korean society. * News Tomato *
About The Author
Gu Byeong-mo
Gu Byeong-mo was born in 1976 in Seoul. She studied Korean language and literature at Kyung Hee University, and worked as an editor. She made her literary debut with the novel The Wizard’s Bakery (2009), which won the Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction. It became bestseller in Korea and was translated into many different languages. Her short story collection Hoping That It Wasn’t Only Me (2015) received Writer of the Year Award and Hwang Sun-won Literary Award for New Writers.
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