The Disaster Tourist: Winner of the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2021
Autor Yun Ko-Eun Traducere de Lizzie Buehleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788163156
ISBN-10: 178816315X
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 128 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 178816315X
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 128 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Yun Ko-eun was born in Seoul in 1980. Her short story 'Piercing' won the Daesan Literary Award for College Students the year she graduated from university. She received the 2008 Hankyorek Literature Award for her novel The Zero G Syndrome and in 2015 her short story collection Aloha won the Kim Yong Ik Novel Prize.
Recenzii
A fresh and sharp story about life under late capitalism ... an entertaining eco-thriller
The forces pitched against Yona reveal their true scale and monstrosity in a frothy-seeming satire that, in the end, shreds the very idea of commerce to bleeding tatters. I'd say this was a perfect short novel for reading on the beach, but given what's in store . . .
An endlessly surprising and totally gripping read, The Disaster Tourist is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. It questions every aspect of life we so often take for granted, smashing apart any easy distinctions between natural and artificial, normal and abnormal, peaceful and violent, personal and political. There could not be a more prescient moment for this too-real fiction about how we create our own disasters on every scale and what resilience might mean in the face of catastrophe.
Throughout The Disaster Tourist, there is a sense of impending catastrophe, of something huge and uncontrollable swallowing up those who spend their lives packaging, controlling and creating these macabre tours ... Phenomenal
An exciting up-and-coming writer tackling gender ... these themes aren't unique to South Korea, but ones that resonate with women globally.
A gripping literary thriller about disaster, adventure, and a crisis of conscience that will resonate with any traveller.
A labyrinth of catastrophes and cataclysms, The Disaster Tourist is a precisely penned novel that lays bare the human condition. Mysterious, evocative, and rich.
A mordantly witty novel that touches on everything from the rise of "dark tourism" to sexual predators in the office to climate change ... a highly literary, ultra-incisive thriller
Excellent ... a plain rendering of the extraordinary
Cleverly combines absurdity with legitimate horror and mounting dread. With its arresting, nightmarish island scenario, this work speaks volumes about the human cost of tourism in developing countries.
Bizarre but intriguing, The Disaster Tourist will make you feel content with the prospect of staycations for the forseeable
A searing critique of capitalism, the impact of tourism on poor countries and our complicity in it. Gripping.
One of the best new books of August 2020
All the upheavals of 2020 perhaps make now the perfect time to read Yun Ko-eun's latest novel, The Disaster Tourist ... it brings too close to home the disasters that we like to believe are far away, separate from us.
Fascinating
An intriguing read about capitalism's ability to monetise everything including climate disasters ... challenges the reader to more robustly evaluate our curiosity about traumatised communities and landscapes that appear exciting for their unpredictability and history of ruin
Ultimate pandemic reading
A dystopian novel that reads like, well, next year
A tale of human impact on nature, and the terror nature can inflict back ... A slim book, it packs a hell of a story into a small but thrilling package.
An extravagant, clever, unpredictable story that walks the razor edge of horror-comedy
The forces pitched against Yona reveal their true scale and monstrosity in a frothy-seeming satire that, in the end, shreds the very idea of commerce to bleeding tatters. I'd say this was a perfect short novel for reading on the beach, but given what's in store . . .
An endlessly surprising and totally gripping read, The Disaster Tourist is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. It questions every aspect of life we so often take for granted, smashing apart any easy distinctions between natural and artificial, normal and abnormal, peaceful and violent, personal and political. There could not be a more prescient moment for this too-real fiction about how we create our own disasters on every scale and what resilience might mean in the face of catastrophe.
Throughout The Disaster Tourist, there is a sense of impending catastrophe, of something huge and uncontrollable swallowing up those who spend their lives packaging, controlling and creating these macabre tours ... Phenomenal
An exciting up-and-coming writer tackling gender ... these themes aren't unique to South Korea, but ones that resonate with women globally.
A gripping literary thriller about disaster, adventure, and a crisis of conscience that will resonate with any traveller.
A labyrinth of catastrophes and cataclysms, The Disaster Tourist is a precisely penned novel that lays bare the human condition. Mysterious, evocative, and rich.
A mordantly witty novel that touches on everything from the rise of "dark tourism" to sexual predators in the office to climate change ... a highly literary, ultra-incisive thriller
Excellent ... a plain rendering of the extraordinary
Cleverly combines absurdity with legitimate horror and mounting dread. With its arresting, nightmarish island scenario, this work speaks volumes about the human cost of tourism in developing countries.
Bizarre but intriguing, The Disaster Tourist will make you feel content with the prospect of staycations for the forseeable
A searing critique of capitalism, the impact of tourism on poor countries and our complicity in it. Gripping.
One of the best new books of August 2020
All the upheavals of 2020 perhaps make now the perfect time to read Yun Ko-eun's latest novel, The Disaster Tourist ... it brings too close to home the disasters that we like to believe are far away, separate from us.
Fascinating
An intriguing read about capitalism's ability to monetise everything including climate disasters ... challenges the reader to more robustly evaluate our curiosity about traumatised communities and landscapes that appear exciting for their unpredictability and history of ruin
Ultimate pandemic reading
A dystopian novel that reads like, well, next year
A tale of human impact on nature, and the terror nature can inflict back ... A slim book, it packs a hell of a story into a small but thrilling package.
An extravagant, clever, unpredictable story that walks the razor edge of horror-comedy