Same Bed Different Dreams

Resumen del libro

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 One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of the Year One of Publishers Weekly Ten Best Books of the Year Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 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 Japan's 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 existed now 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.