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  1. The disaster tourist
    a novel
    Autor*in: Yun, Ko-ŭn
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  Counterpoint, Berkeley, California

    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... mehr

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    7: 895.735-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

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Beteiligt: Buehler, Lizzie (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781640094161; 1640094164
    Auflage/Ausgabe: First Counterpoint edition
    Schlagworte: Dark tourism; Climatic changes; Travel agents; Tourism; Tourism; Islands; Climatic changes; Dark tourism; Islands; Tourism; Tourism ; Employees; Travel; Travel agents; Black humor; Fiction; Black humor
    Umfang: 200 Seiten, 21 cm
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    "First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Serpent's Tail, an imprint of Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso