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Your Utopia

by Bora Chung, Anton Hur
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Your Utopia
Your Utopia

Dystopian tales with humor and tender surprises.

If you've got an appetite for the quirky and thought-provoking, "Your Utopia" by Bora Chung could be a feast for your mind. Chung skilfully blends the grim aspects of dystopian futures with moments of unexpected humor and warmth, ensuring you're not just reading stories but experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions that might just leave you seeing our world in a new light. With Anton Hur's translation preserving the nuance of Chung's voice, this book could be your next conversation starter or introspective escape.

  • Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (2025)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Your Utopia

by Bora Chung, Anton Hur
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ISBN: 9781643756219
Authors: Bora Chung, Anton Hur
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Date of Publication: 2024-01-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Horror, Science Fiction
Related Topics: Speculative Fiction, Dystopia
Goodreads rating: 3.64
(rated by 4385 readers)

Description

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. These stories are suffused with Chung's inimitable wry humour and surprisingly tender moments, too — often between unexpected subjects. In ‘The Center for Immortality Research’, a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she witnessed during the event, under the noses of the mysterious celebrity benefactors hoping to live forever. But she can’t be fired — no one can. In ‘One More Kiss, Dear’, a tender, one-sided love blooms in the AI-elevator of an apartment complex; as in, the elevator develops a profound affection for one of the residents. In ‘Seeds’, we see the final frontier of capitalism’s destruction of the planet and the GMO companies who rule the agricultural industry in this bleak future, but nature has ways of creeping back to life. If you haven’t yet experienced the fruits of this singular imagination, Your Utopia is waiting.
 

Dystopian tales with humor and tender surprises.

If you've got an appetite for the quirky and thought-provoking, "Your Utopia" by Bora Chung could be a feast for your mind. Chung skilfully blends the grim aspects of dystopian futures with moments of unexpected humor and warmth, ensuring you're not just reading stories but experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions that might just leave you seeing our world in a new light. With Anton Hur's translation preserving the nuance of Chung's voice, this book could be your next conversation starter or introspective escape.

  • Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (2025)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.