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2024

Title:	Your utopia : stories / Bora Chung ; translated by Anton Hur.
Author:	Chung, Bora, 1976- author.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
Description:	241 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary:	"Bora Chung’s 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 “The Center for Immortality Research,” 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 “A Song for Sleep,” an AI elevator in an apartment complex develops a tender, one-sided love for an elderly resident. “Seed” traverses the final frontier of capitalism’s destruction of the planet—but nature always creeps back to life." - from Amazon.com
Subjects:	Artificial intelligence -- Fiction
Genre:	Short stories. Science fiction
Other Author:	Hur, Anton, translator.
Other Title:	Kŭnyŏ rŭl mannada (Compilation) English
Contents:	The center for immortality research -- The end of the voyage -- A very ordinary marriage -- Maria, gratia plena -- Your utopia -- A song for sleep -- Seed -- To meet her -- Author's note: the act of mourning.
ISBN:	9781643756219
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Bora Chung is a writer and translator whose works include the National Book Award finalist and International Booker Prize-shortlisted Cursed Bunny. She has an MA in Russian Studies from Yale University and a PhD in Slavic literature from Indiana University. She has taught Russian language and literature and science fiction at Yonsei University and translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean.

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