Red Sword by Bora Chung (Translated by Anton Hur)

[james_davis_nicoll]

The only fate more glorious than dying for the uncaring empire is dying over and over for the uncaring empire.

Red Sword by Bora Chung (Translated by Anton Hur)

Comments

[scott_sanford]

The unnamed planet is perpetually shrouded in mist.... The details of the planet don’t really stand up to close examination...

That is correct. San Francisco is not a planet.

[thistleingrey]

TIL that the small UK-based publisher Honford Star exists. I guess that's how there's a US-accessible ebook release but no paper.

[philrm]

I liked this a lot, but - having loved her collections Cursed Bunny and Your Utopia - it wasn't quite what I expected. The language is a lot sparer, and while her short stories are often pretty bleak, they're also frequently very funny. And I think you'd need to be very familiar with Korean history to trace the parallels (if any) with the historical episode that inspired the novel.