Cursed Bunny: Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize

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She currently teaches Russian language and literature and science fiction studies at Yonsei University and translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean.

This is an excellent examination on how power thrives off of abuse, keeping those beneath you through fear and ensuring they remain subordinate to you by making anything other than complete submission an avenue for destruction, pain or death. And because we are in the wonderfully warped world of Bora Chung’s fiction, the woman proceeds to nonchalantly flush it away and leave the bathroom. I think the lack of pretentious similise and metaphors gives it a feeling of bluntness to cut the author in the gut and to get them to really understand what the story is about.

and then having to find a father before the baby is born otherwise something, the doctors tell her, awful will happen to the baby/her.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I found the ones at the end to be much slower and more contemporary, not really what I’d been looking for as I’m drawn to horror.Stories such as Scars—the longest in the collection and quite possibly my favorite—feel much greater than their length, exploring a lot of ideas and covering a lot of territory while recognizing a novel-length would be too much. Some of the stories were quite thought-provoking, but often the messages they were trying to convey were a bit too obvious for my liking. I can get behind the discussion of how messed up it is that babies are considered worthless and damaged beyond repair if they don't have a father or male figure to grow up with. The first two stories will grab your attention and probably determine if you set the book aside or not. The story here leans to the comic, with rather bemused suitors, when they realise her request, a blackmailer who says he will claim he is the father, an elderly Chaebol owner after a heir and one wannabe suitor who serenades her with Shakespeare in badly pronounced Konglish.

If the aesthetics of the book are the only thing of quality, think again; Cursed Bunny, is without any doubt, THE best short story collection I have read in a long time.

Had some giant trapped inside the cave of the night sky struck their chains against some unimaginably large wall to create the stars? Definitely worth a read for the creative imagination shown here and dark, dark humour, even if the collection is somewhat uneven. Surreal and grotesque, with gestures towards supernatural, fabular and weird fiction, this is a mixed bag of stories.

She goes to great lengths to satisfy someone and is betrayed in the end for it, having merely been a pawn in the game. Each takes a surprising turn that is less a twist-ending and more a natural and well-earned sudden shift in perspective or revealed information that makes you feel like the floor has dropped out from under you.We were developed to aid such humans and enhance their quality of life… Just a few replacement parts or a software upgrade could help us serve you for a decade longer, but we’re treated like trash as soon as there is a new model. But even though many of the issues she’s invested in, and the forms she’s experimenting with, are ones that interest me too, I found the overall impact curiously flat, there was very little that lingered on in my thoughts as I reached the end of these - with the possible exception of the title story and aspects of “Reunion” and “Snare.