ETERNAL HEAVEN

Park Jae and Lee Hae-sang are happily in love until Hae-sang's Lou Gehrig's disease takes a turn for the worse, leaving her immobile and close to death. Jae's only chance to save her is to obtain a SIM card that will upload her consciousness to Lola, an experimental virtual reality that allows its users to live forever. But where are the SIM cards and who else is after them?

Eternal Heaven is the second installment to Jeong's Desire Trilogy and a mind-bending blockbuster novel about virtual realities within virtual realities. The book alternates between two interwoven narratives. The first follows Lim Kyung-ju, who after the shock of his father and brother's deaths, begins working at a homeless center named Samaewon located in a remote region of Korea. There, Kyung-ju meets Park Jae who is searching for a SIM card that will upload his dying fiancé's consciousness to Lola, a newly invented and highly secret virtual reality program. He has come to this center while following rumors that the company who invented the program secretly distributes SIM cards to homeless people. But there are other people after the SIM cards. Can he get to one before they do?

The second narrative follows Hae-sang and Kyung-ju after they have both died and been uploaded to Lola. In this world, Kyung-ju hires Hae-sang to design for him based on his life a Dream Theatre, a virtual reality within Lola where people can relive the entirety of their life before Lola, even those parts they have forgotten or would have experienced had they lived longer. However, Kyung-ju has a special request: she cannot plan his death. But if Kyung-ju does not die, the story will never end, and he will be stuck in the Dream Theatre forever. So Hae-sang enters the story as a knifeman to kill Kyung-ju and bring him back to Lola against his wishes, but will she succeed?

And interlocking these two narratives are two troubling questions: What happened to Jae and why is Kyung-ju in Lola?