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The Disaster Tourist (2020)

di Ko-Eun Yun

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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.… (altro)
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This felt like sooooooo much to be shoved into book of this size. Maybe I'm missing something in translation, but overall the story felt very erratic and messy to me. The themes bounce around from sexual harassment, tourism and travel culture, the exploitation of Mui, and the fascination people have with disasters, and I felt none of them were tied together in a way that evoked much feeling beyond "Yeah, this stuff is all bad". The pacing is poor and goes from dragging out a day or a scene to several pages to skimming weeks in a sentence. I thought Yona was a fine character at times, but honestly she's just robbed of most of her agency throughout the book and is constantly being played by others; I can't for the life of me understand why this book is being sold as a story with "fierce feminist sensibility". It's just not there. The ending only heightened my dissatisfaction in this respect.
All in all, it's a Will Not Recommend from me.

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  deborahee | Feb 23, 2024 |
Definitely a book I bought because I saw it all over bookstagram and my curiosity won me over. This ia book that starts off off-kilter and just gets odder -- Yona works at a travel agency that specializes in sending people to sites of recent disasters -- volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. But what happens when a destination doesn't look like a disaster anymore? And what if the locals have come to depend on that tourism income?

A thriller that delves into the weird exploitations of the tourism industry, our complicated relationships to disasters, harassment in the workplace, with a mix of mounting dread and surreal shifts in plot.

One of those books I think would be better the less you know going in. ( )
  greeniezona | May 12, 2023 |
Sandboarden in de woestijn, vulkanen beklimmen (liefst actieve), wilde dieren zien op een safari of lokale festivals bijwonen. Allemaal aanprijzingen zoals je die terugvindt bij aanbieders van de zogenaamd ‘avontuurlijke groepsreizen’. Maar wat is het eigenlijk dat ons zo aantrekt in het bezoeken van extreme klimaatzones en rampgebieden, aan de nabijheid van gevaar, aan het exotische en vreemde? En misschien nog wel belangrijker: welke prijs betaalt de lokale bevolking hiervoor? Dit zijn de vragen die de Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Yun Ko-eun (1980) verkent in haar boek ‘The disaster tourist’.

Hoofdpersoon Yona werkt als reisorganisator bij Jungle, een touroperator die reizen aanbiedt naar rampzones. Niet alleen naar vulkanen, maar ook naar plekken waar aardbevingen zijn geweest, tsunami’s of genocides. Om iets van de horror te voelen en daarna weer comfortabel naar huis terug te keren. In dit verhaal krijgt Yona de mogelijkheid zelf op reis te gaan. Ze wordt als een soort mystery shopper meegestuurd met één van de slechter presterende tours, naar Mui, een (fictief) eiland voor de kust van Vietnam. Hoogtepunten daar: een sinkhole in de woestijn en de verhalen over de massamoord op een woestijnvolk. Yona begrijpt al snel waarom de tour slecht wordt beoordeeld. Hoe erg allemaal ook, het is toch niet spectaculair genoeg.

Pas als zij op de terugreis haar reisgezelschap kwijtraakt en terugkeert naar Mui, ontdekt ze wat er daar achter de schermen speelt. Niet alleen ontdekt ze hoe onecht haar eigen ervaring geweest is, maar ook welke impact het toerisme heeft op de lokale bevolking. En alsof dat allemaal niet al confronterend genoeg is, is er ook nog een complot in de maak om het ramptoerisme op Mui een nieuwe impuls te geven. Een complot waar Yona aanvankelijk zonder al te veel scrupules aan meewerkt. Op het moment dat ze twijfel gaat voelen, is het eigenlijk al te laat - en levensgevaarlijk - om nog van gedachten te veranderen.

Dit boek van Yun Ko-eun deed mij denken aan de boeken van de Japanse schrijfster Sayaka Murata, in de zin dat zij beiden de werkelijkheid uitvergroten en overdrijven om een probleem aan de kaak te stellen. Voor mij verliest een argument daarmee wat aan kracht, juist omdat het teveel in het absurde wordt getrokken, maar wellicht is dit een cultureel iets? Dat culturele onbegrip voelde ik zeker ook voor de omstandigheden op Yona’s werk, waar het boek mee opent. Yona vermoedt dat haar werkgever van haar af wil, maar kan dit blijkbaar niet op de man af vragen. Ook haar weerloosheid tegen de seksuele intimidatie van haar manager, en haar onwil om zich aan te sluiten bij andere slachtoffers, doen bijna pijn om te lezen.

Dat gevoel van vervreemding gaf het lezen van dit boek ook meerwaarde: het geeft een kijkje in een heel andere wereld. Een wereld die tegelijkertijd ook overeenkomsten heeft met die van ons. Want geven ook velen van ons zich niet over aan de geneugten van vakanties, zonder bezig te zijn met de lokale impact? Hoe “authentiek” is dat lokale festival eigenlijk? En wie woonden er eerst waar nu ons luxe resort staat? Is die vakantiereis wel zo onschuldig? Vragen om nog lang over na te denken, dus hoewel dit een vrij dun boekje is, heeft het een lange nawerking! ( )
  Tinwara | May 10, 2022 |
The first part of the book is okay, if a tad morbid, and the narrator isn't particularly appealing, but the story's intriguing, if unlikely. I might have given three stars if the whole book was similar, continuing the story in a positive way.

But the second half is horrifying, so appalling in places that I could hardly believe I was reading correctly what happened. It's supposedly satirical - and I hope the idea of people gloating over disaster areas is a kind of dark satire - but there is nothing remotely amusing in the book. One reviewer calls it a 'blackly comic caper' - I have no clue how they found anything comic in this novel.

I read it for our local book group, and will be very interested to know what others thought. I certainly would not recommend it.

Longer review here: https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-disaster-tourist-by-yun-ko-eun.... ( )
  SueinCyprus | May 8, 2022 |
3.5 rounded up to 4 ( )
  LizzySiddal | Dec 20, 2021 |
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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.

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