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Same Bed Different Dreams

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, role-playing games and slasher films, K-pop bands and tech conglomerates.

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE

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“Wonderfully suspenseful, like watching a circus performer juggle a dozen torches... sprawling, stunning.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Your view of 20th century history will be enlarged and altered by Ed Park’s mysterious and panoramic novel... This is a Gravity’s Rainbow for another war, an unfinished war.”
—Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn
“I could not stop reading, thinking, and dreaming about Same Bed Different Dreams...
A feverish, mind-altering marvel of a book.”
—Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Stay True
“Same Bed Different Dreams is like no other novel I’ve read before—a cabinet of wonders that demands to be read and reread.”
—Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings
“An ingenious postmodern epic...Wizardly, funny, lyrical, poignant...This tribute to the fractured peninsula’s citizens, diaspora, and allies is one for the ages.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“First book in ages that I wanted to go back and immediately start reading again.”
Michael Chabon, from Instagram