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The Disaster Tourist
Yun Ko-Eun
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*** WINNER OF THE 2021 CWA CRIME IN TRANSLATION DAGGER ***
**LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2022**
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE*
Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she tries to complain, and in an attempt to bury her allegations, the company make her an attractive proposition: a free ticket for one of their most sought-after trips, to the desert island of Mui.
She accepts the offer and travels to the remote island, where the major attraction is a supposedly-dramatic sinkhole. When the customers who've paid a premium for the trip begin to get frustrated, Yona realises that the company has dangerous plans to fabricate an environmental catastrophe to make the trip more interesting, but when she tries to raise the alarm, she discovers she has put her own life in danger.
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A fresh and sharp story about life under late capitalism ... an entertaining eco-thriller
A tale of human impact on nature, and the terror nature can inflict back ... A slim book, it packs a hell of a story into a small but thrilling package.
All the upheavals of 2020 perhaps make now the perfect time to read Yun Ko-eun'
An intriguing read about capitalism'
An extravagant, clever, unpredictable story that walks the razor edge of horror-comedy
An exciting up-and-coming writer tackling gender ... these themes aren'
Ultimate pandemic reading
Cleverly combines absurdity with legitimate horror and mounting dread. With its arresting, nightmarish island scenario, this work speaks volumes about the human cost of tourism in developing countries.
One of the best new books of August 2020
Fascinating
A labyrinth of catastrophes and cataclysms, <i>The Disaster Tourist</i> is a precisely penned novel that lays bare the human condition. Mysterious, evocative, and rich.
A searing critique of capitalism, the impact of tourism on poor countries and our complicity in it. Gripping.
Excellent ... a plain rendering of the extraordinary
Bizarre but intriguing, <i>The Disaster Tourist</i> will make you feel content with the prospect of staycations for the forseeable
An endlessly surprising and totally gripping read, <i>The Disaster Tourist </i>is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. It questions every aspect of life we so often take for granted, smashing apart any easy distinctions between natural and artificial, normal and abnormal, peaceful and violent, personal and political. There could not be a more prescient moment for this too-real fiction about how we create our own disasters on every scale and what resilience might mean in the face of catastrophe.
A dystopian novel that reads like, well, next year
Throughout <i>The </i> <i>Disaster Tourist</i>, 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
A mordantly witty novel that touches on everything from the rise of "dark tourism"
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. I'd say this was a perfect short novel for reading on the beach, but given what'
A gripping literary thriller about disaster, adventure, and a crisis of conscience that will resonate with any traveller.
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