Cursed Bunny: Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize

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Cursed Bunny: Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize

Cursed Bunny: Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize

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At their best, though, these stories use a vocabulary of the grotesque to articulate truths about female bodies, living in a patriarchy, and the brutal vampiric logic of capitalism. The first thing that stands out about Cursed Bunny is Bora Chung’s fluency in the language of the grotesque. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

The reason I gave it four stars instead of five is that the quality of the short tales diminished after the first five, but each story is distinctive in its own way. Trauma becomes a key aspect of these stories, with characters pushed to their limits or reacting to the world around them as informed by the horrors visited upon them. In the ten short tales in this book, Chung masterfully combines elements of horror, fantasy, and magical realism to create a fresh and original take on 'genre-defying'. Definitely worth a read for the creative imagination shown here and dark, dark humour, even if the collection is somewhat uneven. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.My body was created with the things you dumped down the toilet, like your fallen-out hair and the feces you wiped off your behind.

Anton Hur’s translation skilfully captures the way Chung’s prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous.Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. 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. As for my personal preferences, the closer to magical realism or fantasy and farther from typical horror, the better. I don't generally enjoy short story collections as I like to spend a lot of time with fictional characters and get to know and love (or despise) them.

Still, overall, this was fairly entertaining and sufficiently intriguing to keep me reading until the end. Had some giant trapped inside the cave of the night sky struck their chains against some unimaginably large wall to create the stars?It is published by Honford Star whose mission is to publish the best literature from East Asia, be it classic or contemporary . Covering subjects such as beauty, pregnancy and child birth, consumerism, love, revenge, every action has a reaction and the meaning of life itself. 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. Anton Hur's translation skilfully captures the way Chung's prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous. There is something so effortless in the way these stories can occupy a wide variety of genres and tropes yet feel so fresh and balanced together under one binding (that has exquisite cover art).



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