The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun

A bizarre but intriguing slip of a book, The Disaster Tourist will make you feel rather content with the prospect of staycations. Yona Ka is an expert in making disaster zones into engrossing tourist destinations, until she speaks out about sexual harassment at work and is then sent to the sink-hole ridden island of Mui. Only the place is rigged, and getting out alive becomes increasingly difficult. Korean author Yun Ko-eun’s prose is spare and unnerving. It is easy to feel that nothing is really happening, but the plot slowly becomes firmer as moral ambiguities around where we like to travel, and what we like to gawp at, and feel energised by, build up.