Same Bed Different Dreams
  • Published:
    Nov-2023 (Hardcover)
    Oct-2024 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    544
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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

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.

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 KPG's grand project -- everyone 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 dimension -- one in which utopia is possible.
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EDITIONS
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    • Nov-2024
    • Random House
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0812988329
    • ISBN13: 9780812988321
    • First Edition
    • Nov-2023
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0812998979
    • ISBN13: 9780812998979
    •  
    • Nov-2023
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0812988310
    • ISBN13: 9780812988314
    •  
    • Nov-2023
    • Random House
    • eBook (Kindle)



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