Cursed Bunny: Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize

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Her family concluded that she should take a leave of absence from school and get set up by a matchmaker before she began to show. It’s a direct attack on capitalism and the unethical greed it causes to attain wealth, and I quite enjoyed that story a lot because of this. At the hospital, she is coldly informed that she now needs a male partner for the sake of her fetus.

Uh …” She was still in shock from what had happened in the café, and the very mention of the ad made her want to cry. Not yet her guardian, but …” He turned to her and stammered, “C-could it be possible if I were your guardian now? At its core was the government’s insistence that Korea secure its rice supply, and the use of rice in the fermenting of spirits was subsequently forbidden.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. This slender beast of a book contains many themes that leave a lasting impression on the reader that may cause them to need a deep breath – and maybe even a drink – between stories. Grandfather’s family, or I should say my family, were barely afforded the most basic gestures of courtesy.

There was an old man sitting there, and two men wearing sunglasses standing at attention behind him. 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.Equally horrific is Snare, a fable-like narrative playing on Aesop’s The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg.

He went on to say he was thirty-three years old, a graduate of a top school, and currently working at a conglomerate. It was about two-thirds the size of an adult’s head and resembled a lump of carelessly slapped-together yellow and grey clay, with a few scattered clumps of wet hair. They had humble beginnings, distilling a batch of spirits whenever they felt like it for their neighbors, and moved on to standardizing and modernizing their production, expanding their sales network nationally. Dead but not dead, sitting in the dark of some living room on a moonless night in front of an object that keeps me anchored to the world of the living. The very company that had spread the lies about “industrial-use alcohol” bought out its ruined competitor at far below market value.When he woke from anesthesia the first time, he mumbled something about a rabbit sitting on the bed. He leaped at the three departing men, and the four of them ended up on the floor in a tangled heap of bodies. The woman rediscovered the contours of her younger face in the familiar-unfamiliar face of her daughter, feeling surprise, pride, love, and jealousy at the same time.