Overview
āA surreal, riveting, keep-the-lights-on masterwork of horror . . . I will be haunted by this book for years to come.ā āKim Fu, author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
I know this place. The room is too dim to see clearly. It smells like the bones.
Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite roomsāand a quiet terror she is both eager to understand and desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her mother wash the bones of their ancestors in their decrepit bathtub. Every house has them, these rotting and fragmented ribs, tibias, and femurs, whose constant care and persistent stench serve as reminders of what they have all lost to the Forgotten War that never seems to end.
Now Yewonās brother is stationed near the North Korean border, her sister has experienced a life-changing tragedy, and her mother is overwhelmed by anxiety, her health declining. When Yewon begins to drive a local woman named Ms. Han, a mysterious and aging North Korean refugee, to visit her brother at a distant prison, Yewonās dreams intensify. As the line between reality and illusion slowly begins to blur, Yewon is led to an unsettling truth about her countryās collective heritage.
A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative tale of a woman in crisis and in stasis, and a countryās shifting identity in the long afterlife of the Korean War.
This book title, The Invisible Hotel (A Novel), ISBN: 9781638931379, by Yeji Y. Ham, published by Zando (March 5, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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