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Fancy a Trip through (Other People’s) Misery Yun Ko-Eun’s “The Disaster Tourist” Has You Covered

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Article
https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/book-review/fancy-a-trip-through-other-peoples-misery-yun-ko-euns-the-disaster-tourist
Journal
Words Without Borders
Issued Date
August 25, 2020
Page
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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
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This is the third installment in WWB's new series Close-Up: An Experiment in Reviewing Translation, in which Lily Meyer and Mona Kareem review translated books with a focus on the translation itself. Read more about the series in this interview with Meyer and Kareem, or have a look at the previous installments in the series: Meyer's review of Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero, and Kareem's review of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli.

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