Research Catalog

Title

Same bed different dreams : a novel / Ed Park.

Author

Park, Ed, 1970-

Publication

• New York : Random House, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Description

522 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"March 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, its petitions ignored by heads of state as Korea's nationhood is erased. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today. But what if the KPG still existed now, today--working toward a unified Korea, secretly harnessing the might of a giant tech company to further its aims? That's the outrageous premise of Same Bed Different Dreams, which spins Korean history, American pop culture, and our tech-fraught lives into an extraordinary and unforgettable novel. Weaving together three distinct narrative voices, Park twists reality like a kaleidoscope, forging connections and reinterpreting the past. Early on we meet Soon Sheen, who works at the sprawling international technology company GLOAT, and comes into possession of an unfinished book authored by the KPG. The manuscript is a mysterious, revisionist history, tying famous names and obscure bit players to the KPG's grand project. This strange manuscript links together figures from architect-poet Yi Sang to Jack London to Marilyn Monroe. M*A*S*H is in here, too, and the Moonies, and a history of violence extending from the assassination of President McKinley to the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007"--

Subject

• Technology > Fiction
• Governments in exile > Fiction
• FICTION / Literary
• FICTION / Satire
• Technology
• Governments in exile
• Korea > Fiction
• Korea

Genre/Form

• Speculative fiction.
• Novels
• Novels.
• Alternative histories (Fiction)
• Historical fiction.
• Humorous fiction.
• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Romans.

Contents

2333: The Scholars (2016) -- The sins: "The Jury" -- DREAM ONE -- 2333: Extradition to Gambrinus (1966) -- The sins: "The Black Satchel" -- DREAM TWO -- 2333: Harmony Holdings (1977) -- The sins: "The Louse" -- 2333: Man in Korean Costume (1985-1980) -- The sins: "The asterisk" -- DREAM THREE -- 2333: The Exposition (1993) -- The sins: "Pretenders" -- DREAM FOUR -- 2333: Interview with a Mirror (2001-1983) -- 2333: Amsterdam in the Eighties (2009) -- The sins: "You be you" -- DREAM FIVE

Call Number

JFE 24-204

ISBN

• 9780812998979
• 0812998979
• 9780812988314 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023001469

OCLC

1368218540

Author

Park, Ed, 1970- author.

Title

Same bed different dreams : a novel / Ed Park.

Publisher

New York : Random House, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Park, Ed. Same bed different dreams First Edition. New York : Random House, 2023 9780812988314 (DLC) 2023001470

Research Call Number

JFE 24-204