[K-LIT REVIEW] Bora Chung pivots from sci-fi to ghost stories in 'Midnight Timetable'

The hours after midnight are where emotions — some intense, some that linger for too long — sort themselves out. They mingle with the cold night air and lay resting in shadows and moonlight. Shapes form. You make double-takes. What you thought you saw is actually a manifestation of what you feel, strange and ghostly in the odd hours. This zone of time is when the sinister reveals itself to you. “I read somewhere that no matter how many hours one sleeps in a day, a normal person has to be asleep at some point between 1 and 3 a.m.,” Bora Chung writes in “Midnight Timetable,” her latest book to be translated into English. “They do say the time between 1 and 3 a.m. are when ghost sightings are the most common. Maybe a lack of sleep during those hours makes people see things.” Chung has presented the weird and wonderful through short story collections like “Cursed Bunny” and “Your Utopia,” and she returns to these same charms with “Midnight Timetable,” a series of ghost stories that congeal into the form of a novel. With “Midnight Timetable,” translated by AntWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times