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ABOUT AUTHOR Laura Vogt (Teufen, 1989) studied creative writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and Cultural Studies at the University of Luzern. Her first novel So einfach war es zu gehen came out in 2016. She is also the author of numerous short stories and articles as well as lyrical and dramatic texts. She started writing her second novel Was uns betrifft (What Concerns Us) just two months after having her first child. In her work, Laura is particularly interested in exploring the complexity of relationships, maternity, as well as inquiring into the many forms that womanhood can take. She is currently working on her third novel. Laura lives in the canton of St. Gallen.

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DESCRIPTION. Rahel and Fenna are in their late twenties and early thirties. They are sisters. Their mother Vera brought them up by herself. Vera started a series of romantic relationships with other women, and now suffers from breast cancer. Rahel, a jazz singer, is pregnant and single but in love with writer Boris with whom she eventually moves. While she seems to embrace maternity and family life, she falls pregnant from Boris, and her body turns into a complete alienated part of herself. When the baby is born, she rejects maternity; at the same time, she cannot stop breastfeeding the baby. In the meanwhile, Fenna expects a child from Luc, a man who can turn from charming hippy to aggressor in a heartbeat, raping her on a woodland walk well into their relationship. We follow Fenna throughout her complex response, from rage, to acceptance, to feelings of responsibility and guilt. WHAT CONCERNS US is a blunt depiction of pregnancy, sex, maternity and relationships through the lives of two women.

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BROCCOLI PUNCH
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BROCCOLI PUNCH

"Couldn't put down the book! It is trite, I know, but that is what happened to me with Broccoli Punch. The author weaves absolutely fascinating stories. Lee Yuri's depicts K-pop culture, Korean healing, birth dreams, boxing, exploring all the quintessentially Korean aspects to show the reader the kaleidoscope of imagination and everyday life in modern-day Korea." Bora Chung, author of Cursed Bunny
 
"It's so original, it's so funny, it's so strange, it's so insightful." KBS WOLRD Radio Korea 24
 
"When the surrealist veil is lifted, however, what is revealed is the complex web of social relations complicated by the conditions that define modern life: loneliness in a paradoxically hyperconnected world, shifting gender politics, and even mere survival in a world structured through the paradigms of capitalism and commodification." Hong Kong Review of Books
 
A father whose ashes come back to life as a tree; a boyfriend's right hand turning into broccoli; a devoted fan's selfless love becoming the subject of extraterrestrial research; a boyfriend who died in an accident, manifesting in the newlywed couple's living room after five years. With humour and style, Lee Yuri introduces a world where supernatural events and extraordinary beings unexpectedly intrude into everyday life.
 
Lee Yuri (Gangwon, South Korea, 1990) began her literary career
in 2020 through the Kyunghyang Shinmun New Year’s Literary
Contest. She has published two short story collections, Broccoli
Punch, which was her fiction debut, The World of All Things
(2023), as well as a linked novel collection, Meet Me in a Good Place (2023).
 
Amber HJ Kim is a freelance Korean-English conference interpreter
and translator based in Seoul. For nearly twenty years, Amber has been translating fiction and non-fiction; she received the 2014 Korea Times Modern Literature Translation Award Commendation Prize in Fiction as well as multiple translation grants. She is a regular contributing translator for institutions such as LTI Korea and the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea.
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