Same Bed Different Dreams

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ΓÇó A wild,sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the presentΓÇöloaded with assassins and mad poetsRPGs and slasher filmspop bands and the perils of social media ΓÇ£Your view of twentieth-century history will be enlarged and altered. . . . A GravityΓÇÖs Rainbow for another waran unfinished war.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöJonathan Lethemauthor of The Fortress of Solitude WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE ΓÇó ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLYΓÇÖS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ΓÇó NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORSΓÇÖ CHOICE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book ReviewThe Washington PostLos Angeles TimesChicago Public LibraryPolygonKirkus Reviews In 1919far-flung patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolicthoughand after JapanΓÇÖs defeat in World War IIthe KPG dissolves and civil war eruptsresulting in the tragic North-South split that remains today. But what if the KPG still existedΓÇönow working toward a unified Koreasecretly pulling levers to further its aims? Same Bed Different Dreams weaves together three distinct narrative voices with an archive of mysterious imagesand twists reality like a kaleidoscope. Korean historyAmerican pop cultureand our tech-fraught lives come together in this extraordinary and unforgettable novel. Soon Sheena former writer now employed by the tech behemoth GLOATcomes into possession of an unfinished book seemingly authored by the KPG. The manuscript is a riveting revisionist historyconnecting famous names and obscure bit players to the KPGΓÇÖs grand projectΓÇöeveryone from Syngman Rhee and architect-poet Yi Sang to Jack London and Marilyn Monroe. M*A*S*H is in heretooas 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 DaysSame Bed Different Dreams is a raucously funny feat of imagination and a thrilling meld of history and fiction that pulls readers into another dimensionΓÇöone in which utopia is possible.