Part of Off the Shelf Festival of Words 2025
In conversation with Anton Hur.
The new novel from Bora Chung, author of the International Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny. In a labyrinthine research facility an unnamed protagonist begins their night shift under the watchful eye of the building’s enigmatic senior guard. Each evening, as the fluorescent lights hum and the silence grows heavier, the guard shares another tale of cursed objects and lives unspooled by vengeance, sorrow or revelation. But these are not mere ghost stories. They’re warnings. Lessons. Or, perhaps, confessions . . . Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and deeply political The Midnight Timetable is an imaginative work of literary horror.
Bora Chung is a South Korean writer and translator. She is the author of 3 novels and 3 collections of short stories.
Anton Hur is the translator of the International Booker shortlisted Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung. He is the author of Toward Eternity. Anton lives and works in Seoul.
