Same Bed Different Dreams
by Ed Park
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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, RPGs and slasher films, K-pop bands and the perils of social media.In 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, though, and 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 weaves together three distinct narrative voices and an archive of mysterious images and twists reality like a kaleidoscope, spinning Korean history, American pop culture, and our tech-fraught lives into an extraordinary and unforgettable
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