Untold Night and Day -

Bae Suah

Vintage Digital

2020

157 páginas

5h 14m

ISBN-10: B07V3335HK

A hypnotic, disorienting story of parallel lives unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer

For two years, twenty-eight-year-old Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind. But now the theatre is shutting down and Ayami’s future is uncertain.

Her last shift completed and the theatre closed for good, Ayami walks the streets of the city with her former boss late into the night. Together they search for a mutual friend who has disappeared. The following day, at the request of that same friend, Ayami acts as a guide for a detective novelist visiting from abroad.

But in the inescapable, all-consuming heat of Seoul at the height of the summer, order gives way to chaos, the edges of reality start to fray, and the past intrudes on the present in increasingly disruptive ways.

Blisteringly original, Untold Night and Day is a high-wire feat of storytelling that explores the possibility of worlds beyond the one we see and feel – and shows why Bae Suah is considered one of the boldest voices in Korean literature today.

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Entendo, mas não compreendo

Eu entendo o livro ser descrito como um "fever dream", um sonho vivido sem muito sentido. Até gostei dessa ideia e também de pensar nos capítulos como ideias do autor sobre a história. Dito isso, acredito que uma segunda leitura seja necessária para um veredito sobre a nota. A ideia é excelente, mas ainda tenho que ver com o tempo se a execução foi assertiva. Vamos deixar com 2.5 por enquanto e depois da releitura eu avalio novamente.