Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel by Ed Park
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST âąÂ A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the presentâloaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media
âYour view of twentieth-century history will be enlarged and altered. . . . A Gravityâs Rainbow for another war, an unfinished war.â âJonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE âą ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLYâS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR âą NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORSâ CHOICE
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, Kirkus ReviewsÂ
In 1919, far-flung patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japanâs defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the tragic North-South split that remains today.
But what if the KPG still existedânow working toward a unified Korea, secretly pulling levers to further its aims? Same Bed Different Dreams weaves together three distinct narrative voices with an archive of mysterious images, and twists reality like a kaleidoscope. Korean history, American pop culture, and our tech-fraught lives come together in this extraordinary and unforgettable novel.
Soon Sheen, a former writer now employed by the tech behemoth GLOAT, comes into possession of an unfinished book seemingly authored by the KPG. The manuscript is a riveting revisionist history, connecting famous names and obscure bit players to the KPGâs grand projectâeveryone from Syngman Rhee and architect-poet Yi Sang to Jack London and Marilyn Monroe. M*A*S*H is in here, too, as are the Moonies and a history of violence extending from the assassination of President McKinley to the Reagan-era downing of a passenger plane that puts the world on the brink of war.
From the acclaimed author of Personal Days, Same Bed Different Dreams is a raucously funny feat of imagination and a thrilling meld of history and fiction that pulls readers into another dimensionâone in which utopia is possible.
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST âąÂ A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the presentâloaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media
âYour view of twentieth-century history will be enlarged and altered. . . . A Gravityâs Rainbow for another war, an unfinished war.â âJonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE âą ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLYâS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR âą NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORSâ CHOICE
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, Kirkus ReviewsÂ
In 1919, far-flung patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japanâs defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the tragic North-South split that remains today.
But what if the KPG still existedânow working toward a unified Korea, secretly pulling levers to further its aims? Same Bed Different Dreams weaves together three distinct narrative voices with an archive of mysterious images, and twists reality like a kaleidoscope. Korean history, American pop culture, and our tech-fraught lives come together in this extraordinary and unforgettable novel.
Soon Sheen, a former writer now employed by the tech behemoth GLOAT, comes into possession of an unfinished book seemingly authored by the KPG. The manuscript is a riveting revisionist history, connecting famous names and obscure bit players to the KPGâs grand projectâeveryone from Syngman Rhee and architect-poet Yi Sang to Jack London and Marilyn Monroe. M*A*S*H is in here, too, as are the Moonies and a history of violence extending from the assassination of President McKinley to the Reagan-era downing of a passenger plane that puts the world on the brink of war.
From the acclaimed author of Personal Days, Same Bed Different Dreams is a raucously funny feat of imagination and a thrilling meld of history and fiction that pulls readers into another dimensionâone in which utopia is possible.
