num_pages: 160
description: A seductive disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality by South Koreas leading contemporary writer A startling and boundary-pushing novel Untold Night and Day tells the story of a young womans journey through Seoul over the course of a night and a day. Its 28-year-old Ayamis final day at her box-office job in Seouls audio theater. Her night is spent walking the sweltering streets of the city with her former boss in search of Yeoni their missing elderly friend and her day is spent looking after a mysterious visiting poet. Their conversations take in art love food and the inaccessible country to the north. Almost immediately in the heat of Seoul at the height of the summer order gives way to chaos as the edges of reality start to fray with Ayami becoming an unwitting escort into a fever-dream of increasingly tangled threads all the while images of the characters overlapping realities repeat collide change and reassert themselves in this masterful work that upends the very structure of fiction and narrative storytelling and burns itself upon the soul of the reader. By one of the boldest and most innovative voices in contemporary Korean literature and brilliantly realized in English by International Man Bookerwinning translator Deborah Smith Bae Suahs hypnotic and wholly original novel asks whether more than one version of ourselves can exist at once demonstrating the malleable nature of reality as we know it.
language: English
title: Untold Night and Day
publisher: The Overlook Press