Surreal, hilarious, and 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.
From a conspicuous new talent comes Y/N, a provocative literary debut about the universal longing for transcendence and the tragic struggle to assert one's singular story amidst the amnesiac effects of globalization. Crackling with the intellectual sensitivity of Elif Batuman and the sinewy absurdism of Thomas Pynchon, Esther Yi's prose unsettles the boundary between high and mass art, exploding our expectations of a novel about "identity" and offering in its place a sui generis picture of the loneliness that afflicts modern life.
Esther Yi was born in Los Angeles in 1989 and currently lives in Leipzig, Germany.
- Publisher: Astra House (March 21, 2023)
- Language: English
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 662601530
- ISBN-13: 9781662601538
- Item Weight: 12.6 ounces
- Dimensions: 5.84 x 0.83 x 8.56 inches