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Its strained speech mixed with the gurgling of a person drowning, making it difficult to understand.
Chung has a lot to say about capitalism, the patriarchy, greed, motherhood, feminism, and body image.
Also, the discussion of how men choose is they want to be a father but women have no choice if their the babies mother.
The problem is me: horror aesthetics and my sensitivity are not very compatible and I tend to mull over grisly scenes for weeks. Cursing others leads to two graves,” says the narrator, a descendant of the fetish’s maker, quoting an old Japanese proverb. Chung, on the other hand, employs short story collections to explore several genres and styles with such grace, brevity, and directness that many novels lack.
El inodoro ya no es el lugar seguro que alguna vez conocí, y nunca voy a tocar una lámpara con forma de conejo, no importa qué.
He takes it home and uses it to build his wealth, but when the fox dies and his twins are born, his Midas-like obsession takes a sinister and disturbing turn, cursed perhaps by the fox. Anton Hur’s translation skilfully captures the way Chung’s prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous.There’s also a story about robots, “Goodbye, My Love”, that I enjoyed quite a lot that spoke to the process of aging. In the ten short tales in this book, Chung masterfully combines elements of horror, fantasy, and magical realism to create a fresh and original take on 'genre-defying'.