Cursed Bunny is a book that screams to be read late into the night and passed on to the nearest set of hands the very next day. No two stories are alike, and readers will be torn whether to race through them or savor Chung’s wit and frenetic energy on every page. The titular fable centers on a cursed lamp in the shape of a rabbit, fit for a child’s bedroom but for its sinister capabilities. Another story follows a young monster, forced into underground fight rings without knowing his own power. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.

“The Embodiment” takes us into a dystopian gynecology office where a pregnant woman is told that she must find a father for her baby or face horrific consequences. Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. “The Head” follows a woman haunted by her own bodily waste. But in this unforgettable collection, translated by the acclaimed Anton Hur, Chung’s absurd, haunting universe could be our own. By turns thought-provoking and stomach-turning, here monsters take the shapes of furry woodland creatures and danger lurks in unexpected corners of everyday apartment buildings. “Like the work of Carmen Maria Machado and Aoko Matsuda, Chung’s stories are so wonderfully, blisteringly strange and powerful that it’s almost impossible to put Cursed Bunny down.” ―Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get In TroubleĪ stunning, wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature–surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) biteįrom an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy categorization. “Cool, brilliantly demented K-horror–just the way I like it!” - Ed Park, author of Personal Days SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT

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