The keen insights into a society and the nonstop pacing of the folk tales kept me on the edge of my seat .>

Autorentext

Bora Chung is a writer and translator whose works include the National Book Award finalist and International Booker Prize-shortlisted Cursed Bunny. She has an MA in Russian Studies from Yale University and a PhD in Slavic literature from Indiana University. She has taught Russian language and literature and science fiction at Yonsei University and translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean.

Anton Hur was born in Stockholm and currently resides in Seoul. He won a PEN Translates grant for his translation of The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-ae and a PEN/Heim grant for Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny, the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. His translation of Sang Young Park's Love in the Big City was longlisted for the same prize in the same year. His translation of Violets was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Awards. He has taught at the British Centre for Literary Translation, the Ewha University Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, and the Bread Loaf Translators Conference. His writing is published in Words Without Borders, Asymptote Journal, Litro, and others.

Klappentext

Amidst its many locked doors and strange disappearances, the senior night guard of a mysterious research centre slowly reveals one ghost story after another to our unnamed protagonist, who comes to realize that the building houses an untold number of cursed objects - objects that enact revenge, teach lessons and push people to change their lives, or to the brink of insanity.

Unlike Chung's acclaimed short story collection Cursed Bunny and the highly anticipated collection Your Utopia, these linked stories take the shape of a novel, the haunting vignettes like a series of interconnected nightmares.