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Surreal, hilarious, & shrewdly poignant—a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction.
It’s as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, & the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field; on live streams, as fans from around the world comment in dozens of languages; even on skincare products endorsed by the wildly popular Korean boyband, of which Moon is the youngest, most luminous member. Seized by ineffable desire, our unnamed narrator begins writing Y/N fanfic—in which you, the reader, insert [Your/Name] & play out an intimate relationship with the unattainable star.
Then Moon suddenly retires, vanishing from the public eye. As Y/N flies from Berlin to Seoul to be with Moon, our narrator, too, journeys to Korea in search of the object of her love. An escalating series of mistranslations & misidentifications lands her at the headquarters of the Kafkaesque entertainment company that manages the boyband until, at a secret location, together with Moon at last, art & real life approach their final convergence.
From a conspicuous new talent comes Y/N, a provocative literary debut about the universal longing for transcendence & the tragic struggle to assert one’s singular story amidst the amnesiac effects of globalization. Crackling with the intellectual sensitivity of Elif Batuman & the sinewy absurdism of Thomas Pynchon, Esther Yi's prose unsettles the boundary between high & mass art, exploding our
expectations of a novel about “identity” & offering in its place a sui generis picture of the loneliness that afflicts modern life.
Esther Yi was born in Los Angeles in 1989 & currently lives in Leipzig, Germany.
It’s as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, & the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field; on live streams, as fans from around the world comment in dozens of languages; even on skincare products endorsed by the wildly popular Korean boyband, of which Moon is the youngest, most luminous member. Seized by ineffable desire, our unnamed narrator begins writing Y/N fanfic—in which you, the reader, insert [Your/Name] & play out an intimate relationship with the unattainable star.
Then Moon suddenly retires, vanishing from the public eye. As Y/N flies from Berlin to Seoul to be with Moon, our narrator, too, journeys to Korea in search of the object of her love. An escalating series of mistranslations & misidentifications lands her at the headquarters of the Kafkaesque entertainment company that manages the boyband until, at a secret location, together with Moon at last, art & real life approach their final convergence.
From a conspicuous new talent comes Y/N, a provocative literary debut about the universal longing for transcendence & the tragic struggle to assert one’s singular story amidst the amnesiac effects of globalization. Crackling with the intellectual sensitivity of Elif Batuman & the sinewy absurdism of Thomas Pynchon, Esther Yi's prose unsettles the boundary between high & mass art, exploding our
expectations of a novel about “identity” & offering in its place a sui generis picture of the loneliness that afflicts modern life.
Esther Yi was born in Los Angeles in 1989 & currently lives in Leipzig, Germany.
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Year:
2023
Publisher:
Astra House, Astra Publishing House
Language:
english
Pages:
224
ISBN 10:
1662601530
ISBN 13:
9781662601538
File:
EPUB, 1.87 MB
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CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2023
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