Cursed Bunny: Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize

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The opening story in Cursed Bunny is about a woman who spends her life being followed by a malformed head that emerges from her toilet. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

I fully acknowledge this was a personal issue with the writing, but nevertheless it took away from my reading experience. ACT Contact / FAQ About Events / Videos Merch / Subs Sign in/up Cursed Bunny Chung, Bora More by this author.I think the lack of pretentious similise and metaphors gives it a feeling of bluntness to cut the author in the gut and to get them to really understand what the story is about. Her prose feels very matter of fact, and when she drifts into fable-like territory such as Ruler of the Winds and Sands it feels very at home in the narrative. 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. It is also great to see the translators named on the front cover, and the Korean title and author’s name, written in 한글 (hangeul) on the flaps.

Un gran comienzo con unas verdaderamente sobresalientes historias, el impulso gradualmente disminuyendo hasta que para el final solo deseaba terminar para seguir con otra cosa. i don't know if that makes sense, but it has to add up at least a little, because i didn't like this one much. I personally don’t like forcing people to read books but I will break that rule – do invest in these stories. the only two times i've felt patriotic this year are when i saw kim soo hyun on the street and also when i read frozen finger from this collection.Since these stories are structured like fairy-tales it makes a lot of sense that there is a moral tale embedded within the text. I am not going to lie to you: there are unsettling, creepy and even sickening things, scenes, characters and events in Bora Chung's stories but the book is so absorbing that, to my amazement, I did not mind them most of the time. Chung has a lot to say about capitalism, the patriarchy, greed, motherhood, feminism, and body image. Billed as a weird collection of genre-bending short stories, the International Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny made waves in 2022 upon the release of its English translation. There are hints of the absurd and the surreal woven through Chung’s narratives which she highlights through twists on vampirism, magical transformations, and mystical, doppelganger-like figures.

I was told how quirky this book would be, but my brain is still processing it the whole time (like wtf am I reading). Generally when Bora Chung’s characters become greedy for power, money or social gain they will suffer. Mostly what stuck with me since then are the first two stories – “The Head” and “The Embodiment” (and a couple of others.If I’m being vague about these stories it is because they are best read with no idea what is coming. Otherwise, what could have been a day full of fun memories turns into a hot, grumpy kind of day when all the best things happened when the gates first opened and the heat of the sun didn’t burn your skin and suck you dry.

After reading this book (and Happy Stories, Mostly) I can no longer say that I do not like short stories. The titular story was no better, a literal rabbit curse that sends people twitching and sitting in roads. The Embodiment is another story that looks at power structures, this time as a sharp and horrifying critique of patriarchal structures. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. Anton Hur’s translation skilfully captures the way Chung’s prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous.

The story is also noticeable for a reference to the uncanny valley concept - one that neatly summarises the collection. El inodoro ya no es el lugar seguro que alguna vez conocí, y nunca voy a tocar una lámpara con forma de conejo, no importa qué. I definitely enjoyed the first two-thirds of the stories, where we’ve got the absurd, dark, weird, creepy stories. 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. T]hat was just what the world and its people were like,’ young characters growing up in bad situations think, and they carry these scars through life with them if they don’t learn to unpack and detangle their traumas.