In “Home Sweet Home,” a couple buys a dilapidated building with a mysterious basement. “The Frozen Finger” features a woman trapped in a sinking car.īetrayal looms in “Goodbye, My Love,” which is about a woman and her three robots. “The Embodiment” is about an unfertilized pregnancy that sends the potential mother into a matchmaking frenzy. Women in trouble populate the majority of Chung’s strange tales, including “The Head,” in which a lumpy talking head lives in the toilet, continuously forming itself from a woman’s waste. Her glorious anglophone debut, enabled by award-winning Anton Hur, is poised to shock and delight. She’s a Yale MA-ed, Indiana University PhD-ed translator of Russian and Polish modern literature into Korean who writes an amalgam of speculative, ghostly, literary horror fiction. Bestselling Korean author Bora Chung is a genre-defying polyglot.
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