Anton Hur Bücher

In einer nahen Zukunft sorgt eine experimentelle Therapie dafür, dass Krebs geheilt werden kann: Menschliche Körperzellen werden vollständig durch Naniten ersetzt – Roboterzellen, die die Erkrankten unsterblich machen. Als der Literaturwissenschaftler Yonghun – eines der ersten Testsubjekte – auf mysteriöse Weise verschwindet, wirft das Fragen auf. Vor allem für Dr. Beeko, der das Projekt um Patient 1 überwacht. Was ist mit Yonghun geschehen? Ist es wirklich er selbst, der zurückgekommen ist? Und was hat sein Verschwinden mit der von ihm erschaffenen KI zu tun, der er beigebracht hat, Gedichte zu verstehen, und die nach seinem Mann Panit, was der Geliebte bedeutet, benannt ist? Der preisgekrönte Übersetzer Anton Hur erforscht in seinem spektakulären Debüt, was passiert, wenn die Technologie die Biologie überholt, was Emily Dickinson mit unserem Menschsein zu tun hat und wie die Liebe selbst das Ende der Menschheit überlebt. »Man muss kein begeisterter Science-Fiction-Leser sein, um sich in diese Welt zu versenken. Ein Roman über die wichtigsten Fragen unserer Zeit.« New York Journal of Books

The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize-shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reach so many people, especially young people, with her reflections. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki became a runaway bestseller in South Korea, Indonesia, and the U.S., and reached a community of readers who appreciated depression and anxiety being discussed with such intimacy. Baek's struggle with dysthymia continues in I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki. And healing is a difficult process; the inner conflict she experiences in treatment becomes more complex, more challenging. With this second book, Baek Sehee reaches out to hold the hands of all those for whom grappling with everyday despair is part of a lifelong project, part of the journey.

From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers comes an absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, and the chaos stemming from a company’s relentless pursuit to build the world’s first space elevator. On the fictional island of Patusan, the Korean conglomerate LK is constructing an elevator into Earth’s orbit, transforming the once-idyllic resort town into a bustling travel hub. Up in space, the elevator’s “spider cable” is held taut by a mass of space junk known as the Counterweight, which conceals a trove of personal data left by LK’s former CEO—data critical to the company and humanity's future. Racing to retrieve this data are various rival forces: Mac, the disillusioned Chief of External Affairs at LK; Choi Gangwu, an everyman unwittingly entangled in Mac’s investigations; the former CEO’s brilliant niece and power-hungry son; and Rex Tamaki, a violent officer from LK’s Security Division. They navigate a maze of fake identities, neuro-implant “Worms,” and the political grievances of the Patusan Liberation Front, an army of island natives fighting for their sovereignty. Conceived as a low-budget science fiction film, the narrative weaves literary references from Joseph Conrad to the Marquis de Sade, blending cyberpunk, hardboiled detective fiction, and a parable of Korea’s neocolonial ambitions.

Exploring the nature of intelligence and the unexpected consequences of progress, the meaning of personhood and life, and what we really have to fear from technology and the future, Toward eternity is a gorgeous, thought-provoking novel that challenges the notion of what makes us human-and how love survives even the end of that humanity.