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by Yun Ko-Eun
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yun Ko-Eun, Lizzie Buehler (Translator)Publish date:10/14/2025Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribe UsISBN-13:9781964992198ISBN-10:1964992192UPC:9781964992198Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, City Life, SatireBook Topic:KoreaSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCZRSQ2790

A darkly comic and compelling satire of the art world from the author of The Disaster Tourist.

An Yiji's career had been stalling for some time when a representative of the illustrious Robert Foundation offers her a spot on their all-expenses-paid artist residency in California. The residency has launched many famous artists' careers, so she knows she can't waste this opportunity. Still, she feels reluctant to accept, and with good reason: the Foundation's patron is a small dog named Robert, known for both his talent as a photographer, but also his arrogance. Moreover, the offer comes with a condition: on the last day of the residency, one of An's paintings must be incinerated, and Robert gets to select which one.

When An reaches California, she finds the state ablaze with wildfires, but at the foundation all is calm. She navigates awkward dinners with Robert, tries to find inspiration while being bombarded with sponsors who all want their business to be the subject of her art, and despairs at the prospect of her work being set on fire. Was coming to California a huge mistake?

Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribe UsISBN-13:9781964992198ISBN-10:1964992192UPC:9781964992198Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, City Life, SatireBook Topic:KoreaSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCZRSQ2790
Ko-Eun, Yun: -

Yun Ko-eun is the winner of 2021 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation. Her prizewinning novel, The Disaster Tourist, was nominated for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Rosetta Award, Comedy Women in Print Award, and the Dublin Literature Award. She hosts a daily radio program EBS Book Cafe in South Korea.


Buehler, Lizzie: -

Lizzie Buehler is the translator of The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun and Korean Teachers by Seo Su-jin. She holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa and has studied comparative literature at Princeton and Harvard. She lives In New York.

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Yun Ko-Eun, Lizzie Buehler (Translator)

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Yun Ko-Eun

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