Untold Night and Day: A Novel

First published in Korea by Jaemgus Mouemin in 2013

"Like  Bae's others, this book is simultaneously a detective novel & a surreal, poetic fever dream. Inhabited both by abstract, mysterious characters who blur & overlap with one another, & by fleshly bodies, wrinkling, festering, leaking menstrual blood." — Translator Deborah Smith 

'As cryptic & compelling as a fever dream... Bae Suah is one of the most unique & adroit literary voices working today' — Sharlene Teo

Finishing her last shift at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind, Kim Ayami heads into the night with her former boss, searching for a missing friend. The following day, she looks after a visiting poet, a man who is not as he seems. 

Unfolding over a night & a day in the sweltering summer heat, their world's order gives way to chaos, the edges of reality start to fray, & the past intrudes on the present in increasingly disorientating ways.

Untold Night and Day is a hallucinatory feat of storytelling from one of the most radical voices in contemporary Korean literature.

'Highly original... Once I finished it, much of it slipped into my subconscious' Daily Telegraph

Bae Suah was born in Seoul in 1965. She studied chemistry at university & wrote her first short story as a way of practising her typing. Since 1993 she has published more than a dozen novels & short story collections. Untold Night & Day is her first book to be published in the UK.