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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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  • Maricruz Barrera Chávezshared an impression21 days ago
    👍Worth reading
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    Una lectura rara y con muchas capas. Muy recomendable.

  • b0678608124shared an impression14 days ago
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Quotes

  • Maricruz Barrera Chávezhas quoted21 days ago
    Life shrinks into a trap made up of a shimmering moment in the past, a trap where they endlessly repeat that singular moment when they were surest of being alive.
  • Maricruz Barrera Chávezhas quoted21 days ago
    For some people, their lives are ruled by one shocking event reverberating through their survival instincts.
  • Maricruz Barrera Chávezhas quoted21 days ago
    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.

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