Cursed Bunny: Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize

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I can't bring myself to give it 1 star, because I did like the last story and I can see what Chung was trying to do with this, it just really didn't work for me. There’s a fascination too with the grotesque and animalistic but nothing that any regular consumer of horror fiction’s likely to find especially shocking or disturbing.

These stories will make your eyes pop out with horror, make you shift uncomfortably and wonder at Bora Chung’s infinite creativity. Cursed Bunny is a creepy good time with something for everyone if only you dare to enter Bora Chung’s nightmares.

Many of these stories will appeal to those who enjoy moral tales and a strange cocktail of horror-science fiction-magical realism. I liked the kind of sharp critique creeping through this intro, along with a very visual kind of storytelling.

Not to say, Anton Hur also did a wonderful job with the translation, making it an easy and quick read. 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. So I'm guessing I need to explain my use of Duchamp's sculpture in connection with Bora Chung's book, Cursed Bunny.The greatest horrors are the ones that feel very close to everyday reality and tend to revolve around the evils people can put others through, particularly for their own benefit. The other Hur translation I read was Park's Love in the Big City which was better than this and was left behind on the longlist. Scars covers an age-old trope of human sacrifice for a community as well as enslavement and abuse of an innocent child for profit, while Cursed Bunny (one of the most sinister good times in the whole book) is a revenge tale against a corporate CEO for having used his position of power and privilege to destroy a struggling family. The Embodiment is another story that looks at power structures, this time as a sharp and horrifying critique of patriarchal structures.

Chung illustrates how egotism can lead people to commit heinous crimes against others and it's appalling to think this is also the reality of today.Em todos eles, a autora explora temas como a exploração do corpo feminino pelo patriarcado, o trauma como uma armadilha temporal que nos impede de seguir adiante, a vingança como uma faca de dois gumes e o amor como uma arma tóxica. Some reviewers emphasize that they have never read anything like that before and I found the originality of Cursed Bunny striking. Rising Korean author Bora Chung draws on a variety of influences here, her extensive background in Russian and Polish literature, her commitment to political activism as well as her fascination with fairytales and the fantastic.