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Failed Summer Vacation

Heuijung Hur

Translated by Paige Aniyah Morris

Scratch Books

Paperback

200pp

ISBN: 9781068355509

Fiction

Publication date: 3 June 2025

Rights: UK & Commonwealth

£10.99

The debut collection of genre-defying short stories from the Korean Literature and Society’s New Writer Award.

Seven diversely wild and gripping stories – dreamy, dark, lyrical and wry – that expose the oddness of how we live and how we might come to live. Moving between science fiction, surrealism, speculative fiction and uncanny realism, these are rich and exhilarating stories that will haunt your summer. 

 

‘Adventurous, experimental, and brimming with wit.’

Gu Byeong-mo, author of The Old Woman With the Knife

 

Heuijung Hur is the winner of the Korean  Literature and Society New Writer Award Winner.  Paige Aniyah Morris is the co-translator of Han Kang’s forthcoming We Do Not Part