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The best translated fiction – review roundup

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Article: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/29/the-best-translated-fiction-review-roundup
Journal: The Guardian
Issued Date: March 29, 2024
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
City: -
Book: Your Utopia
Writer: Bora Chung
Translator: Anton Hur

About the Author

Bora Chung
Birth : 1976 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Bora
Family Name : Chung
Korean Name : 정보라
ISNI : 0000000463322293
Works : 16

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English(English)

Korean writer Chung’s previous book Cursed Bunny, which was shortlisted for the International Booker prize, took horror and fantasy as its inspiration; in this collection of stories the driver is science fiction, with a good dose of absurdity. An institute researching immortality celebrates its anniversary, but gets bogged down in the design of the invitations. A pandemic causes people to become cannibals, so a spaceship is sent away from Earth with uninfected people. “Do you know how to land this thing?” One story is narrated by an internet-connected lift, which can’t understand why humans don’t get their parts replaced as they age. Beneath the weirdness are serious points being made about acceptance of change and fear of obsolescence – as well as lots of entertainment. “The world is full of strange people,” opens the final story – and most of them are in here.

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