And I hope that adds some fresh elements to the familiar structure. And I add a Korean reality, the things that I see or the things that I heard from somebody else and wed that kind of magical twist to it. And I really love that structure, so I try to use it whenever it seems fun. So you've described these stories as, quote, "like a fairy tale but with a little bit of a Korean twist." Can you talk about what that means? They definitely felt like fairy tales to me.ĬHUNG: Fairy tales - usually, the European ones that we are kind of used to in the English-speaking world has a certain way of plot development.
Author Bora Chung joins us now to talk about her collection. It was translated from Korean by Anton Hur. Those are some of the bizarre, twisted plot lines in "Cursed Bunny," Bora Chung's first collection of short stories to appear in English, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
A girl whose brother feeds on her blood, robots that take revenge on their owner and a bunny lamp with a deadly curse.
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