Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (English) Paperback Book

Description: Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah, Deborah Smith Unfolding over a night and a day in the sweltering summer heat, their worlds order gives way to chaos, the edges of reality start to fray, and the past intrudes on the present in increasingly disorientating ways. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A seductive, disorienting, and wholly original story about parallel lives, unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seouls summer.As cryptic and compelling as a fever dream... Bae Suah is one of the most unique and adroit literary voices working today Sharlene TeoFinishing her last shift at Seouls only audio theatre for the blind, Kim Ayami heads into the night with her former boss, searching for a missing friend. The following day, she looks after a visiting poet, a man who is not as he seems. Unfolding over a night and a day in the sweltering summer heat, their worlds order gives way to chaos, the edges of reality start to fray, and the past intrudes on the present in increasingly disorientating ways.Untold Night and Day is a hallucinatory feat of storytelling from one of the most radical voices in contemporary Korean literature.Highly original... Once I finished it, much of it slipped into my subconscious Daily Telegraph Author Biography Bae Suah (Author)Bae Suah was born in Seoul in 1965. She studied chemistry at university and wrote her first short story as a way of practising her typing. Since 1993 she has published more than a dozen novels and short story collections. Untold Night and Day is her first book to be published in the UK.Deborah Smith (Translator)Deborah Smith has translated books by Han Kang and Bae Suah. She founded Tilted Axis Press in 2015 and is based in north India. Review Hypnotic… an uncannily affecting and dreamlike story of parallel lives and worlds. -- Chloe Ashby * Guardian *[A] highly original novel, full of unsolved mysteries, repeated motifs and startling prose… Remarkably fresh… Exhilarating… Once I finished it, much of it slipped into my unconscious. All that remains is a sense of Baes boundless yet precise imagination. -- Luiza Sauma * Daily Telegraph *A metaphysical detective story, Untold Night and Day...draws on ideas from Korean shamanism...to venture in style and ambition far from the conventions of mystery narratives... Storylines echo one another and are braided into multilayered fictional universe with extraordinary skill… Baes novel complicates the boundaries between self and other reality and make-believe, night and day. -- Sarah Shin * Observer *Bae Suah is one of Koreas most radical contemporary writers… Untold Night and Day is a hallucinatory novel propelled by the logic of dreams… Bae masterfully layers [her] themes into an almost hidden code beneath the novels meditative surface. -- Jay G Ying * Guardian *Bae Suahs disturbing, beautifully controlled novel Untold Night and Day is a book of doubles, shadows and parallel worlds... a slim yet labyrinthine twist on a "choose your own adventure" story that disarms even as it disorients. -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times * Review Text Hypnotic... an uncannily affecting and dreamlike story of parallel lives and worlds. Review Quote Hypnotic... an uncannily affecting and dreamlike story of parallel lives and worlds. Promotional "Headline" A seductive, disorienting, and wholly original story about parallel lives, unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seouls summer. Details ISBN1529110866 Author Deborah Smith Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2021 Translator Deborah Smith ISBN-10 1529110866 ISBN-13 9781529110869 Publication Date 2021-01-07 Language English DEWEY 895.735 Pages 160 UK Release Date 2021-01-07 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-01-07 NZ Release Date 2021-01-07 Translated from Korean Imprint Vintage Alternative 9781473565814 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131553439;

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