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Bora Chung

Cursed Bunny

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society. Anton Hur's translation skilfully captures the way Chung's prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous.
213 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
Publisher
Honford Star
Translator
Anton Hur
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Quotes

  • Aida Rodriguezhas quoted2 months ago
    Parents who destroy their children’s lives, who suck the life out of their children’s futures, not only for the sake of maintaining their own illusions but also to zealously expand them into the lives of their children—such parents can almost be understood from the perspective of obsession. Following the words “Be grateful I raised you” is the implied clause “instead of killing you or leaving you for dead.” They probably mean it, too. My parents and their parents’ generations, after surviving the Korean War, had always, just like the generation that survived World War II, set their purpose not to live a human life but to have an animal’s instinct for survival.
  • Aida Rodriguezhas quoted2 months ago
    “I wonder why they can’t leave those terrible times behind. Whether in life or death.”

    “Trauma. Probably.”

    … If I could make a wish

    I want to be just a little happier
    If I become too happy

    I will miss sadness
  • Aida Rodriguezhas quoted2 months ago
    I didn’t believe I’d ever be back. As much as I loved the place, life doesn’t give such opportunities so readily, and I couldn’t continue this state of hovering between reality and unreality forever.

    That was probably why, when he suggested we go to his apartment, I accepted.

    … If I could make a wish

    I wouldn’t know what to say
    What should I wish for

    Bad times or good times …

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