A fresh and sharp story about life under late capitalism ... an entertaining eco-thriller Guardian
Yun Ko-eun was born in Seoul in 1980. Her short story 'Piercing' won the Daesan Literary Award for College Students the year she graduated from university. She received the 2008 Hankyorek Literature Award for her novel The Zero G Syndrome and in 2015 her short story collection Aloha won the Kim Yong Ik Novel Prize.
Lizzie Buehler is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She also holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Her translations from the Korean include Yun Ko-eun's novel The Disaster Tourist and short story collection Table for One.