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UNTOLD NIGHT AND DAY

Suah Bae

'As cryptic and compelling as a fever dream... Bae Suah is one of the most unique and adroit literary voices working today' Sharlene Teo

Finishing her last shift at Seoul's 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 world's 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. 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.

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Book Published 2021-01-07 by Vintage

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Bae Suah's 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.

I loved this book. I loved its uncanny beauty, its startling occurrences. As it unravels you feel, if only a little, yourself unraveling too. A Lynchian triumph.

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. Bae's novel complicates the boundaries between self and other reality and make-believe, night and day.

[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 Bae's boundless yet precise imagination.

Haunting and poetic, Untold Night and Day holds the reader in a suspended state, allowing us to explore the tension of the threshold. A strange and beautiful novel, wonderfully translated by Deborah Smith.

Hypnotic. an uncannily affecting and dreamlike story of parallel lives and worlds.

Unconventional and original. A Seoul fairytale where the unexpected should always be expected.

Bae Suah is one of Korea's 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 novel's meditative surface.