**One of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024,┬аand┬аKirkus Reviews' Best Fiction of 2024**
"Chung builds out her stories with imagination, absurdity and a dry sense of humor, all applied with X-Acto knife precision."┬атАХAlexandra Kleeman, The New York Times Book Review
From the acclaimed author and translator of the National Book Award Finalist,┬аCursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fearsтАФand deepest desires.
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Bora ChungтАЩs inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the acclaimed Anton Hur, readers will experience a variety of possible fates for humanity, from total demise via a disease whose only symptom is casual cannibalism to a world in which even dreams can be monitored and used to convict people of crimes.
In тАЬThe Center for Immortality Research,тАЭ a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors only to be blamed for the chaos that ensues during the event in front of the mysterious celebrity benefactors hoping to live forever. In тАЬA Song for Sleep,тАЭ an AI elevator in an apartment complex develops a tender, one-sided love for an elderly resident. тАЬSeedтАЭ traverses the final frontier of capitalismтАЩs destruction of the planetтАФbut nature always creeps back to life.
If you havenтАЩt yet experienced the fruits of ChungтАЩs singular imagination, Your Utopia is waiting.
Sciencefiction en fantasy