{"product_id":"your-neighbours-table","title":"Your Neighbour's Table","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Old Woman with the Knife\u003c\/i\u003e comes the thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood, through four women whose lives intersect in unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex outside Seoul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she's ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbours, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet, from the day she arrives, Yojin feels uneasy about the community spirit thrust upon her. Her concerns grow as communal child care begins and the other parents show their true colours. \u003ci\u003eYour Neighbour's Table \u003c\/i\u003etraces the lives of four women in the apartments, all with different aspirations and beliefs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill they find a way to live peacefully? Or are society's expectations stacked against them from the start?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA trenchant social novel from an award-winning author, \u003ci\u003eYour Neighbour's Table\u003c\/i\u003e incisively illuminates the unspoken imbalance of women's parenting labour and the challenges of working towards a better life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44787029409971,"sku":"9781035416479","price":479.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477334719781035416479.jpg?v=1762813106","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/your-neighbours-table","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}