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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media
“Your view of twentieth-century history will be enlarged and…
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2 authors picked Same Bed Different Dreams as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Syngman Rhee and the Moonies make cameos in this wide-ranging novel of Korea and Korean-Americans. But how do Leon Czolgasz, McKinley assassin; Harold Lloyd, silent movie star; and Parker Jotter fictional science-fiction author fit in? This highly original novel weaves together three narrative strands, moving back-and-forth across time and space. I read it in February and felt it might well be my favorite book of the entire year. I believe it was.
Ed Park continues to be one of the most original writers of our time. This book is so many different things rolled into one that it's hard to encapsulate in just a few lines. As the publisher describes it, Same Bed Different Dreams "imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present," but it also explores what it means to be a writer and to keep the stories of those who came before us alive.
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