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The Disaster Tourist
A Novel
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First Counterpoint edition.
Description: 200 pages ; 21 cm
For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. Her work life is uneventful until trouble arises in the form of a predatory colleague. To forestall any disruption of business-as-usual, Jungle makes Yona a proposition: a paid "vacation" to the desert island of Mui. But Yona must pose as a tourist and assess whether Jungle should continue their partnership with the unprofitable destination. Yona travels to the remote island, whose major attraction is an underwhelming sinkhole, a huge disappointment to the customers who've paid a premium. Soon Yona discovers the resort's plan to fabricate a catastrophe in the interest of regaining their good standing with Jungle--and the manager enlists Yona's help. Yona must choose between the callous company to whom she's dedicated her life, or the possibility of a fresh start in a powerful new position. As she begins to understand the cost of the manufactured disaster, Yona realizes that the lives of Mui's citizens are in danger--and so is she.
Subjects:
Dark tourism -- Fiction.
Climatic changes -- Fiction.
Travel agents -- Fiction.
Tourism -- Employees -- Fiction.
Tourism -- Korea (South) -- Fiction.
Islands -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Vietnam -- Description and travel -- Fiction.
Dark tourism -- Fiction.
Climatic changes -- Fiction.
Travel agents -- Fiction.
Tourism -- Employees -- Fiction.
Tourism -- Korea (South) -- Fiction.
Islands -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Vietnam -- Description and travel -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781640094161
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Yun | Sandhills Indoors | Fiction | In |
"First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Serpent's Tail, an imprint of Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.
In English, translated from the Korean.
In English, translated from the Korean.