Articles by Beth Eunhee Hong
Beth Eunhee Hong
bethhong@heraldcorp.com-
[Herald Interview] ‘Cursed Bunny’ author Bora Chung on writing from the margins
Like her stories, Bora Chung radiates terse, fierce energy like an electrical cable cut open. On a Thursday morning exactly one week after “Cursed Bunny” -- her collection of 10 short stories translated by Anton Hur -- was announced among the works longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, Chung told The Korea Herald that she was still in shock. “Suddenly people are mentioning my name in the same sentence with Han Kang and Olga Tokarczuk, and I feel this is surreal
Books March 30, 2022
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[Book Review] In ‘Future of Silence,’ Korean women’s voices resound across generations
We turn to literature to understand ourselves and others, across boundaries of time, space, and culture. When fictional characters reveal the whole, unvarnished truth of their lives, it can be a mirror to our own. Readers may experience such moments of recognition while reading “The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women,” a collection of nine short stories spanning five decades from the 1970s to 2010s. In them, women find themselves in situations ranging from the Kafkaesque t
Books Feb. 24, 2022
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