Your Utopia

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. \”Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung’s terrors, which will shrivel you to a bouillon cube of your most primal instincts\” (Vulture), yet these stories are suffused with Chung’s inimitable wry humour and surprisingly tender moments, too – often between unexpected subjects.

In ‘The Center for Immortality Research’, a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she witnessed during the event, under the noses of the mysterious celebrity benefactors hoping to live forever. But she can’t be fired – no one can. In ‘One More Kiss, Dear’, a tender, one-sided love blooms in the AI-elevator of an apartment complex; as in, the elevator develops a profound affection for one of the residents. In ‘Seeds’, we see the final frontier of capitalism’s destruction of the planet and the GMO companies who rule the agricultural industry in this bleak future, but nature has ways of creeping back to life.

Chung’s writing is \”haunting, funny, gross, terrifying – and yet when we reach the end, we just want more\” (Alexander Chee). If you haven’t yet experienced the fruits of this singular imagination, Your Utopia is waiting.


‘Unexpected, funny, thrillingly original. These stories will stick with me.’
-Ainslie Hogarth, author of the New York Times Best Book of the Year, Motherthing, and Normal Women

‘Bora Chung’s stories glisten at the border of our weird world, and all our other weird worlds. A truly sublime book.’
-Samantha Hunt, bestselling author of The Seas and The Unwritten Book


Praise for Cursed Bunny-

‘While the stories in Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung blend elements of horror, fantasy and the surreal, each is viscerally rooted in the real fears and pressures of everyday life.’
-International Booker Prize judges

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Imprint: Scribe Australia
Publication date: 30/01/2024