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Book cover for THE CEMETERY OF UNTOLD STORIES by Julia Alvarez.

A stature lays down in bed of grass, appearing to be sleeping, as plants curl up around it.

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The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By Julia Alvarez

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland of the Dominican Republic.

The Cemetery of Untold Stories asks us to consider if our tales will last forever or if they might one day be forever lost… What a blessing to have one of our finest writers assure us that indeed ‘we are in this story together.” —Manuel Muñoz, author of The Consequences

Meet the Author and Translator of Your Utopia

Bora Chung

Bora Chung is a writer of science fiction and generally unrealistic stories. Bora also translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean. She has published three full-length novels and four books of collected short stories in Korean. Among them, Cursed Bunny and Your Utopia, both translated into English by Anton Hur. She likes dark and magical stories and stories about strong women who fight to survive in an unjust and violent world.

Anton Hur

Anton Hur was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was subsequently raised in six different countries on four different continents, including British Hong Kong, Ethiopia, the United States, and Thailand, but spent most of his time in Korea. He has worked as an interpreter and translator for more than two decades, and his translation of Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny was a finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature. He divides his time between Seoul and the science fiction-y island of Songdo with his husband. 

Two black and white photos are stacked on top of each other. 

On top, a photo of author Bora Chung in a white button down and glasses, looking up and to the left.

Below, a photo of translator Anton Hur in a patterned short sleeve button down glancing to the left.