The photo, the crime, the dog, and the artist. I kept asking myself: is this for real? I couldnt stop wondering and couldnt stop reading either. Yun Ko-eun is such a master storyteller, and this translation immaculately reflects her style. So many disparate events are happening in this novel and yet they are all convincingly probable. In the end, I am left pondering about reality. About how we all live once before we burn. -- Bora Chung, author of Cursed Bunny Yun Ko-euns surgical satire on the age-old war between art and commerce has never felt this fresh and this relevant. -- Sean Ellis, film director Yun Ko-eun puts a lighted match to our present-day bonfire of the vanities, and the result is a memorably bizarre spectacle. -- Simon Morley, author of Modern Painting: A Concise History Praise for The Disaster Tourist:
A fresh and sharp story about life under late capitalism an entertaining eco-thriller. * The Guardian * Praise for The Disaster Tourist:
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. Id say this was a perfect short novel for reading on the beach, but given whats in store ... -- Simon Ings * The Times * Praise for The Disaster Tourist:
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. * The Spectator * Praise for The Disaster Tourist:
Excellent ... a plain rendering of the extraordinary. * The Irish Times *
