In The Head, a woman is advised to simply ignore the sentient severed head found living in her toilet bowl. For example, women’s fears and concerns have been ignored since the dawn of the genre, and the protagonists of Chung’s stories fare no better. Specialising in contemporary and classic East Asian literature, Honford Star is the perfect publisher for Chung’s masterful surrealist storytelling.Įnglish edition cover designed by Choi JaehoonĬursed Bunny sees Bora Chung employ and then amplify absurdly horrific levels of familiar tropes found in horror. Cursed Bunny offers 10 stories of capitalist corruption, misogyny, and patriarchy: ghost stories, speculative fiction, and darkly comic fairy tales served twitching and bloody on a satirical plate. “Capitalism is nothing before the forces of love and passion!” So declares an impossibly pregnant woman’s stalker in The Embodiment, the second story in this intricate puzzle box of a collection from Korean author Bora Chung.
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