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Untold Night and Day

Bae Suah

3.61 · Rating details · 602 ratings · 134 reviews

A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by South Korea’s leading contemporary writer

A startling and boundary-pushing novel, Untold Night and Day tells the story of a young woman’s journey through Seoul over the course of a night and a day. It’s 28-year-old Ayami’s final day at her box-office job in Seoul’s audio theate ...more

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Dec 12, 2019 Meike rated it really liked it

Shelves: korea, 2019-read

In this novel, everybody is a ghost, a shadow, a dreamed-up contraption, and life unfolds in strange loops, enigmatic encounters, and unsettling atmospheric disturbances; so in a way, it's a twisted realist novel! :-) Bae Suah throws her readers into a maelstrom of shifting timelines and perspectives, thus creating a puzzling depiction of the title-giving night and day in which multiple existences cumulate at one point in time: "Ayami was her future self or her past self. And she was both, exist In this novel, everybody is a ghost, a shadow, a dreamed-up contraption, and life unfolds in strange loops, enigmatic encounters, and unsettling atmospheric disturbances; so in a way, it's a twisted realist novel! :-) Bae Suah throws her readers into a maelstrom of shifting timelines and perspectives, thus creating a puzzling depiction of the title-giving night and day in which multiple existences cumulate at one point in time: "Ayami was her future self or her past self. And she was both, existing at the same time. (...) That was the secret of night and day existing simultaneously."

While this narrative concept is certainly philosophically complex, the story is easy to follow and not only deep, but also captivating: 27-year-old Ayami just lost her job at a small audio theatre in Seoul because the establishment is being closed down. A former actress, she is unsure what to do next, and we accompany her through one night and one day (which is more of an declared than an actual time span), in which, among other things, she spends time with her former boss and, after being asked by a severely ill friend of both of them, picks up a German writer from the airport. These activities might seem mundane, but it's the intriguing dialogue, the dynamics between the characters and, above all, the surreal narrative estrangement effects that turn the outcome into a haunting and disturbing experience.

The most obvious narrative strategy is the use of repetition - again and again, we encounter the exact same phrases and descriptions in different contexts, like the skirt that flutters "like an old dishcloth", the feeling as if "someone were hammering a nail into the crown of (one's) head", "capillaries webbing the whites of (someone's) eyes", a dead body "in the space between ceiling and the roof of (someone's) house", and many, many more. People do the same things or the same features are ascribed to them, sometimes only slightly varied. The disorienting effect turns the characters into ghosts and Seoul into am almost liquid space, ever quivering and oscillating. The whole novel can also be read as a pastiche of The Blind Owl, the main work of Iranian writer and early modernist Sadegh Hedayat, a book that is mentioned in various different contexts in Bae Suah's novel. Hedayat's text about a pen case painter confessing his nightmares and obsession with death to a shadow shaped as an owl is also non-linear, surreal, dream-like and relies heavily on repetition while challenging (in this case Iranian) literary traditions; at one point, Ayami even sees "her own huge shadow wavering on the wall".

Art and artists play a vital role in Bae Suah's text as well: There is the protagonist who is an actress (or is she actually a poet?), the audio theatre, a performance film, a photography exhibition ("every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts"), an aspiring poet named Buha who sees "no contradiction whatsoever in the gulf between dreams and reality" and sells blue pills (hello, The Matrix), an old poet named Kim Cheol-sseok (yes, with two "s"), the severely ill German teacher Yeoni who lets her pupils read books, the German poet called Wolfi, which is usually short for Wolfgang, and many other references. There are multiple connections to Germany in the text - Bae Suah shares her time between South Korea and Germany. Another major motif in the text are the senses or lack thereof: While they usually help to grasp our surroundings, Bae Suah's characters are again and again deprived of sensual information (the audio theatre, reading lips, the blackout restaurant, Ayami's bad eyesight etc.), or if they aren't, the sensual information seems to further disorientate them (see the strange loops contained in the repetitions). Btw: Ayami means "beautiful color" in Japanese, and yes, you remember that correctly, she worked at an audio theatre. :-)

All in all, I was deeply impressed and also highly entertained by this unusual text, which reminded me of one of my favorite experimental writers, Jesse Ball (he would probably love the idea of a pickpocket who, instead of stealing, drops messages into people's pockets, and a protagonist stating "it occurred to me that I'm no more than an imaginary woman in your dream"). I'm glad that with the rise of Han Kang, Western readers found a new interest in South Korean literature, so I hope we will soon see more translations of exciting authors hailing from Korea. ...more

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Jan 14, 2021 Henk rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Hyper associative: like Dali in writing, an alive Hieronymus Bosch painting, a feverish dream in simmering hot Seoul.
Whenever I write a book I come up with several alternative versions. I write down as many as I can, read through them and choose the one I like the best.

This was something else and not at all what I expected before based on the cover or the slim size of this book.
Alienating, what starts of as a story of a young Korean woman closing up at work evolves into a dreamlike, non-logical ...more

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Apr 13, 2020 L.S. Popovich rated it it was amazing

Shelves: magic-realism, 2020, korean, 5-star

What starts as a quiet tale of a struggling middle class youth in Korea becomes a disorienting and surreal fable of identity, love, and art. At the intersection of Murakami and Kafka, Bae Suah occupies her own corner of contemporary literature. At times as light and charming as Banana Yoshimoto or Hiromi Kawakami, she also possesses highly literary powers comparable to Marquez. It is impossible to pin down exactly how she manages to convey rich detail, elegant economy, vivid characterization, an What starts as a quiet tale of a struggling middle class youth in Korea becomes a disorienting and surreal fable of identity, love, and art. At the intersection of Murakami and Kafka, Bae Suah occupies her own corner of contemporary literature. At times as light and charming as Banana Yoshimoto or Hiromi Kawakami, she also possesses highly literary powers comparable to Marquez. It is impossible to pin down exactly how she manages to convey rich detail, elegant economy, vivid characterization, and dream-like magic all at once.

Several recurrent images pervade the novel, which is organized like a piece of music. The refrains remind us of certain memories, but they also establish specific symbols. The effect of these interesting moments shed light on the passage of time in the world of the novel. It is clever in the extreme how Suah manages to weave together disparate occurrences in intriguing ways - whether it is an encounter in a theater or a magical bus ride through downtown, each wave of surrealism serves to construct a heartfelt nuance of youthful regret, love-lorn solitude, or the existential dilemma of a dreaming poet. Temperature crops up frequently in the book, enhancing the characters' skewed perspective with irony, hyperbole, and sympathy.

Bae Suah has said in interviews, that she did not choose Korea, as one does not choose one's name, but it is hers all the same. This uncertain commitment to national identity may be seen in some of her works dealing with outsiders, foreigners, and dispossessed Koreans. Here she describes South Korea as an island, surrounded on 3 sides by water, and on the fourth by an uncrossable border.

Transportation is another underlying theme of the novel - trains, planes, taxis and buses. A fair portion of the action takes place while the characters are standing still, but movement continues in their interactions, as they often recount journeys and far-removed events. I got the impression that the interstices of life, the introspective moments, intruded in unexpected ways, to punctuate the impressionistic qualities the author was going for. If you are not familiar with her style, the aimlessness or "random" aspect may trick you into believing this masterful novel is sloppy. In fact, it is a honed, enchanting, mesmeric experience, a dream of life, wherein emotion and memory collide.

I'm astounded by what this author has managed to do in the 4 books of hers I've read. The last one in English is called Recitation, and I will not be able to resist reading it for long.

Thanks go to the publisher who provided an ARC through Netgalley. ...more

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Dec 13, 2019 Blair rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020-release, edelweiss, read-on-kindle, translated, contemporary, macabre-slipstream-weird

To read Untold Night and Day is to stand on shifting ground. This is a story that always operates according to dream logic, in which identities are malleable and the impossible becomes unremarkable.

We are introduced to Ayami on her last day of employment at an 'audio theatre', where recordings are played to the visually impaired. At first the scene appears mundane: Ayami worries about a radio that keeps turning itself back on, speaks to her boss, and ruminates on her next career move. However, i To read Untold Night and Day is to stand on shifting ground. This is a story that always operates according to dream logic, in which identities are malleable and the impossible becomes unremarkable.

We are introduced to Ayami on her last day of employment at an 'audio theatre', where recordings are played to the visually impaired. At first the scene appears mundane: Ayami worries about a radio that keeps turning itself back on, speaks to her boss, and ruminates on her next career move. However, it doesn't take long for the story's underlying strangeness to seep through. Scenes of Ayami inside the theatre, observing passers-by, again seem relatively ordinary until you realise she can hear every detail of conversations taking place outside, beyond the locked doors, across the street and inside cars. A passage about the heat of summer in the city spirals into an apocalyptic vision of burning streets and melting flesh. Ayami and her boss dine at a restaurant where everyone eats in pitch darkness.

There are motifs, too: a girl with a visual impairment wearing a stiff cotton hanbok and 'rough hemp sandals'; a woman pressing Ayami's wrist, as if taking her pulse; a desperate man with bloodshot eyes, among others. Sometimes features of these figures are transferred to the main characters, and sometimes they surface in strangers. Whole paragraphs are repeated in different contexts – several times, I was jolted by repetition, wondering momentarily whether I had accidentally turned the page backwards. As I read, I wondered whether these motifs were clues, adding up to some greater elucidation of Ayami's murky past. It would seem not. If there's any message to take away from this story, it's the idea that everything is constantly slipping away and remaking itself.

This city's hidden name is "secret". People end up losing one another before they know it. Everything disappears as quickly as it's put up. The same is true of memories. It can even happen that, if you take ten steps out of your door then turn and look back, the house you just left isn't there any more. And then you'll never find it again. It can happen with people, too. This city's hidden name is "secret".

At points, Untold Night and Day reminded me of Iain Reid's I’m Thinking of Ending Things and Hiromi Kawakami's Record of a Night Too Brief; while it shares with these novels a slippery, dreamlike quality, it's too distinctive to be truly comparable to anything else. As with the Kawakami book, the resolute weirdness sometimes gets a bit wearing, but the overall effect is pleasing. I finished it wanting to read more and know more about Ayami, yet also feeling satisfied with this odd snapshot of her life.

I received an advance review copy of Untold Night and Day from the publisher through Edelweiss.

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Dec 02, 2020 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it it was ok

Shelves: read2020, location-korea, around-the-world, novella, ebooks, tournament-of-books, translated, women-in-translation, hoopla

"Just finish it," I chided myself. "It's only 160 pages, come on!" And thus I persisted.

Halfway through, last night, I drifted off into upright couch sitting deep sleep, where I had four intense nightmarish dreams in a row, and apparently moaned throughout (not in a good way.)

And I DO blame this book, which I can't make any sense of. I can't tell what's real or what's not. I can't understand how what seems imagined or historical in one scene is real in another. I don't understand how the charact ...more

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Feb 20, 2020 Paul Fulcher rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020, korean-literature

The mysterious repeated statements enhance the sense of the surreal, the fantastical.

Untold Night and Day, translated by Deborah Smith, was originally published in Korean in 2013 as 알려지지 않은 밤과 하루 by 배수아 (Bae Suah).

This is the 7th book by 배수아 I have read (and the 9th translation by Deborah Smith, including 4 of novels by Han Kang) - see below for the list.

The first section of the novel is narrated from the perspective of Ayami (아야미), a young (or is she?) women a wannabe actress (or did she act? ...more

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Sep 14, 2020 Kate rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: korean-lit, read-in-2020

3/5stars

On paper this should have been a favorite book ever - absolutely surreal, magical realism, where the lines between reality and fiction are completely blurred. I loved how strange this got, and how lost I felt, but too much of the time I felt bored. This book is only 150 pages, and too much of it was spent talking about things that really didn't matter. I'd say a solid 80% of this novel is dialogue, and I've discovered I simply don't like that in novels - if it's going to just be dialogue ...more

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Oct 07, 2020 David rated it liked it

Deborah Smith again translates with florid language, evoking a surreal landscape where phrases echo word for word throughout the novel. Stories overlap and intersect. Episodes overlay each other as if written on diaphanous paper filling out and filling in the larger narrative as each page is laid on top of the other.

You have to be in the mood for this. It's so contemplatively weird, intent on pushing you off balance and messing with your equilibrium. A hazy fever dream in the liminal space betw ...more

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May 26, 2020 Floor Flawless rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2020

This was quite a weird one to read. Though when I read the translator's note at the end, it all made more sense to me. ...more

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Apr 02, 2020 Fatma rated it liked it · review of another edition

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"Hold on to my arm. This city's hidden name is 'secret.' People end up losing one another before they know it. Everything disappears as quickly as it's put up. The same is true of memories. It can even happen that, if you take ten steps out of your door and then turn and look back, the house you just left isn't there any more. And then you'll never find it again. It can happen with people, too."

Untold Night and Day is like a hall of mirrors: motifs are repeated to distortion, mutating as the

"Hold on to my arm. This city's hidden name is 'secret.' People end up losing one another before they know it. Everything disappears as quickly as it's put up. The same is true of memories. It can even happen that, if you take ten steps out of your door and then turn and look back, the house you just left isn't there any more. And then you'll never find it again. It can happen with people, too."

Untold Night and Day is like a hall of mirrors: motifs are repeated to distortion, mutating as they appear in different contexts with shifting meanings, so much so that as in a hall of mirrors, it becomes difficult to extricate the tangible from its reflection. Boundaries are porous in the novel, events bleeding into each other and characters moving in and out of each other's narratives. Needless to say, this is a story that is more about raising questions than supplying answers. At 150 pages, it's a slim novel, but it's one that is so dense with narrative convolutions that it definitely demands your attention to keep up with even a little bit of its plot.

Some adjectives to describe this book: strange, absurd, bizarre, surreal. Suah's brand of surrealism is defined by her preoccupation with sensory detail: the almost suffocating heat of Seoul in the summer, the texture of a starched fabric, the instinctive panic that comes with being in absolute darkness. Suah quite literally sets the stage for this kind of preoccupation with one of her opening paragraphs:

"With the lights off, the interior of the auditorium seemed as though submerged in murky water. Objects, matter itself, were softly disintegrating. All identity became ambiguous, semi-opaque. Not only light and form, but sound, too."

That's exactly it: matter seems to disintegrate in this novel, like putty in Suah's hands. And because of this you end up with a narrative that feels less linear and more circular.

All of this is to say, I enjoyed this novel. I can appreciate that it might not be for everyone, especially those who tend towards more concrete plots, but despite its bizarreness I was along for whatever ride Bae Suah took me on. Sometimes you encounter stories you don't understand, know that you don't understand them, and yet still enjoy them; Untold Night and Day is one of those stories.

Thank you so much to ABRAMS Books for sending me an advanced copy of this in exchange for an honest review! ...more

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Mar 09, 2020 Jaclyn (sixminutesforme) rated it really liked it

This was a mesmerizing and contemplative narrative, completely absent of plot but rich in observation and imagery and juxtapositions. Parts of the prose felt fevered with their effectively utilized repetitions of said imagery (smallpox marks, fatal incidents with buses, white animals). I really enjoyed this, and if you enjoy other works that Deborah Smith has translated (namely Han Kang), suspect this is one you'll also connect with.

The e-pub I read didn't have a translators note - I'd looked fo ...more

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Aug 21, 2020 Aylin rated it really liked it

Shelves: women-they-have-minds-and-they-ha

a fever dream I recommend reading in one go

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Feb 01, 2020 Chris Haak rated it liked it · review of another edition

Very fascinating short, experimental novel, but also a confusing and difficult one that for me was not always enjoyable to read. I am interested to read more of Bae Suah though.
Thank you Jonathan Cape for the ARC.

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Aug 18, 2020 Anna Baillie-Karas rated it it was amazing

Incredible. Lucid writing and translation, singular characters, and a propulsive story that pulls the rug out from under your feet. The comparison with David Lynch is apt, with recurring motifs & moving from reality to the surreal. I almost understood what was happening, but not quite. Ideas of memory & the impermanence of things, & she plays with blindness & vision. Tightly written, engaging and will give your brain a workout.

4.5 stars (only because I don’t quite know what happened) rounded up ...more

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Oct 16, 2020 Caroline rated it liked it · review of another edition

Surreal and dreamlike. This was kind of a weird book but honestly, I dig it.

The lines between reality and memory are blurred. Our main character Ayami is in a fever-dream state and I was right there with her. Certain descriptions and images recur and there's this feeling of disconnectedness from time as the story hops around between real and surreal. It's well-written and the imagery is strong. However this is quite a dialogue heavy book and I found that ended up adding to my confusion but takin ...more

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May 17, 2020 Khai Jian (KJ) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This is going to be a super short review. I dont get this book at all. I think the author is trying to create a parallel story. Luckily this is a short book. If not, I will DNF this. You can pick this up if you are a fan of surrealism stories.

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Jan 15, 2021 morgan rated it really liked it

euphoric

plus I love translators' notes ...more

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Mar 21, 2020 Kamila Kunda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, own, asia, south-and-north-korea

Bae Suah likes to challenge readers used to more conventional plot lines and character development. In “Untold Night and Day” identities are blurred, chronology is warped, time and space are stretched and exist in parallel to others.

It’s a muggy summer in Seoul. Ayami, the newly unemployed administrator of an audio theatre for the blind which just closed down, is spending the day and night in an eerie suspension between the past, present and future. Her name means “the spirit that enters the sha ...more

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Sep 18, 2020 Bhaskar rated it really liked it

Shelves: translated, nice-and-strange, fantasy, south-korea

It was like being in a blind mirror … like being in a blind dream.

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Jan 30, 2020 Abbie | ab_reads rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: translations-read-in-2020

(#gifted @jonathancape) Wow, finishing Untold Night and Day I genuinely felt like I was coming down off a trip - or genuinely in that I imagine that’s what coming down off a trip feels like! This book reads like a bizarre fever dream, blurring the lines between reality and imagination, past and present, manifesting the idea of parallel lives running alongside ours. Even people become blurred - who is to say what’s real and what’s just a figment of our imagination?
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I definitely did not grasp ever ...more

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Mar 27, 2020 catherine ♡ rated it it was ok

Shelves: contemporary

Actual Rating: 2.0

So this book wasn't very long (only 160 pages), yet it felt long when I was reading it and I very nearly could not finish it at all. It was confusing, to say the least, and I kind of felt like I was reading a short story for school — one that I didn't understand and needed a teacher to break down for me.

It was definitely very dialed in at the beginning, and Ayami's feelings of having failed in multiple careers and being at a standstill — it was all very relatable. Then the craz ...more

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Aug 27, 2020 Areeb Ahmad (Bankrupt_Bookworm) rated it liked it · review of another edition

“The body is a passageway - a channel, without which the two of us would not be able to exist in the way we do now, the way I know you & you know me. Without their mirror images, our original forms wouldn't exist.”

RATING: 3.5/5

The best way to describing it would be disorienting. I was quite unsure how I felt about the book even after passing the halfway mark but unknown to me, it was spinning its web. I was slowly seduced until I could experience Suah's magic, not just objectively perceive it at ...more

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Jun 09, 2020 Sanjana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Bae Suah has done it again for me!

The plot - if you can call it that - follows Ayami, a 28 year old former actress who just finished her last day working at an Audio Auditorium in Seoul. She also takes German language lessons from an ailing lady, who is also a friend of the Director of the Auditorium.

We follow her for one night and the next day (although the timeframe is hazy), as she has dinner with her Director, and the next day picks up a foreign poet/writer who has just landed in Seoul for ...more

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Apr 12, 2020 Paul rated it it was ok

"In particular, the mysterious repeated statements enhance the sense of the surreal, the fantastical."
This was referring to the Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat (a key work involved in this book) but could just as easily have been the author of this novel explaining and justifying the almost-incessant repetition of certain phrases, descriptions and events.

I get it, this was one of several techniques employed to make this a disorienting and surreal read - along with characters and events merging into ...more

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Feb 19, 2020 Ana rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: asian-lit, books-i-own, contemporary

What a strange little book. I'm also going to borrow the term from the book blurb since I think it is the most fitting description for it: Untold Night and Day reads like a fever dream, where characters and events often get overlapped (I often had a faint sense of déjà vu, until I realized it was the same events and sentences being told over and over again) and intertwined. The story dances between ordinary and sometimes borderline eerie. While short in length, it packs plenty of different theme ...more

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May 04, 2020 Fanna marked it as to-read · review of another edition

May 1, 2020: Featured in Fanticipating Reads of May 2020!

✔ translated work by South-Korean woman
✔ middle-class youth struggle & realism
✔ a theater actress turns towards being an escort
✔ surreal, disorienting, dreamy literary fiction
✔ comparable to other translated South-Korean gems like The Vegetarian ...more

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Jan 01, 2021 lucinda rated it liked it · review of another edition

"Ayami was her future self or her past self. And she was both, existing at the same time. In that other world, she was both the chicken and the old woman. That was the secret of night and day existing simultaneously."

3.5 stars - surreal, dreamlike and a bit unnerving. Bae Suah's writing is very intoxicating, and it's another fantastic translation from Deborah Smith. ...more

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Feb 18, 2020 Jaclyn Crupi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Through the use of narrative loops, surreal encounters and repetition, Bae Suah explores fractured selves and the possibilities of identity. Given its experimental and disorienting style, the book is ultimately quite simply set over a 24-hour period and follows a young former actress who has lost her job in an audio theatre. The unsettling atmosphere and weird encounters have strong Lynchian overtones. Untold Night and Day has its own internal logic and once you accept its fever dream qualities ...more

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Jan 01, 2020 Jay rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: theme-experimental-bipoc, 2020, writer-female, favourites-of-2020, language-korean, author-south-korea

Hypnotic experimental novel that explores a wide range of cerebral themes. The repetition of motifs and images give the illusion that the novel exists like a hall of mirrors, folding onto itself, demanding to be read twice-over. This is a vivid and mature novel with some unforgettable moments: the blackout restaurant; the bravura description of a heat-wave early on in the novel; the final chapters with Ayami and Wolfi, to name a few.

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Sep 17, 2020 Menna Alashker added it

The only way to describe this book is that if this was a piece of art, it would be a stunning abstract piece. You can't really understand what's going on or what the sequence of events is but you're mesmerized anyway and you can't stop reading. I wouldn't recommend this book and I really can't tell if I enjoyed it or not but it was such an interesting read, and incredibly different that I'm not mad at it. ...more

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Bae Suah, one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors, has published more than a dozen works and won several prestigious awards. She has also translated several books from the German, including works by W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, and Jenny Erpenbeck. Her first book to appear in English, Nowhere to be Found, was longlisted for a PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Aw ...more

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“Ayami was her future self or her past self. And she was both, existing at the same time. In that other world, she was both the chicken and the old woman. That was the secret of night and day existing simultaneously. Ayami discovered this through a single movement, bending down to pick up the pebble. And, remembering this simultaneous existence more vividly than she remembered herself, became unable to remember anything else.” — 1 likes

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