Your Utopia [electronic resource] : : stories

Bora Chung2024

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‘Unexpected, funny, thrillingly original. These stories will stick with me.’ Ainslie Hogarth, author of the New York Times Best Book of the Year, Motherthing , and Normal Women By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny , in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. “Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung’s terrors, which will shrivel you to a bouillon cube of your most primal instincts” (Vulture), yet these stories are suffused with Chung's inimitable wry humour and surprisingly tender moments, too — often between unexpected subjects. In ‘The Center for Immortality Research’, a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she witnessed during the event, under the noses of the mysterious celebrity benefactors hoping to live forever. But she can’t be fired — no one can. In ‘A Song fo...