What if your utopia isn’t as flawless as you think?
Senin Ütopyan (Your Utopia), by Bora Chung, the internationally acclaimed voice of Korean literature,
is out now from Can Yayınları!
Senin Ütopyan, by Bora Chung, regarded as one of the most original and innovative voices in Korean literature, reaches readers in January. Holding our hopes and fears for the future up to the same mirror, every story in Senin Ütopyan reveals, in startling prose, just how fragile the thing we call “utopia” can be.
Bora Chung, who made waves internationally with Lanetli Tavşan (Cursed Bunny), once again fearlessly lays bare the most fragile and disquieting sides of human nature in the stories of Senin Ütopyan, opening the door both to a dystopian universe and to a reckoning of conscience: an artificial intelligence trying to learn emotions, a society searching for meaning amid devastation, a natural world that resists capitalism and, against all odds, finds a way to survive…
What if the dream of a better world has turned inside out?
With its cool-headed narration, spellbinding atmosphere, dark humour and quiet melancholy, Senin Ütopyan is not just a story collection that reshapes what it means to be human; it is a powerful look at the greatest question of our age: does true happiness lie in a utopia we build, or in the courage to give it up?
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