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The Expectations That Travelers Carried: The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun (trans. Lizzie Buehler)

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Article
https://www.tor.com/2020/08/13/book-reviews-the-disaster-tourist-by-yun-ko-eun-trans-lizzie-buehler/
Journal
Tor.com
Issued Date
August 13, 2020
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Language
English(English)
Country
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Book
The Disaster Tourist
Writer
Yun Ko Eun
Translator
Lizzie Buehler

About the Author

  • Yun Ko Eun
  • Birth : 1980 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Ko Eun
  • Family Name : Yun
  • Korean Name : 윤고은
  • ISNI : 0000000460164576
  • Works : 12
Descriptions - 1 Languages
  • English(English)

The Disaster Tourist is a trim near-future speculative novel from Yun Ko-eun, the first of her novels to be translated and published in English. Ko Yona, our protagonist, has been an employee of the travel company Jungle for around ten years; Jungle creates “ethical” vacation packages to locations of catastrophe. Tsunami, earthquakes, volcanoes, radiation, prisons and asylums, mass killings: the humans involved and the sites of their trauma become the consumables offered in trade for tourists seeking that authentic experience and a bit of moral righteousness to assuage the guilt of rubbernecking.

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