These are stories about survival that reveal the evils of survival at the expense of another person and often lead to vicious consequences. Brilliantly translated into English by Anton Hur, these are stories that will worm into your subconscious and haunt you long after finishing particularly through the way they latch onto primal fears as well as social orders of patriarchy and capitalism to dredge up their sinister nature. From body horror to sci fi and fables, these ten stories will dazzle as much as they disturb you across their surreal landscape of ghastly narratives. Bora Chung seemingly has a map to these vicious hotspots and details them across the variety of stories in her outstanding collection, Cursed Bunny. If you lift up the stones of reality you’ll often find cold, cruel evils scatter from beneath. ‘ I feel like I’m being given permission to stay alive.’
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