{"product_id":"y-n-hardcover","title":"Y\/N - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEsther Yi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"Wondrous and weird . . . \u003ci\u003eY\/N\u003c\/i\u003e resists the junkiness of the internet . . . against which a well-formed novel like this counteracts, a blast of cleansing heat.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"Gorgeous.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"High Brow x Brilliant.\" --NY Mag \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eApproval Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \"Piercing, feverish, and frequently astonishing.\" --\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Utterly brilliant.\" --\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A true novel of the era.\" --\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Freakish and hallucinatory.\" \u003ci\u003e--Vulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Absurdly funny.\" \u003ci\u003e--Ms. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Haunting.\" --\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Riveting and innovative.\" --\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Sophisticated.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Strange, haunting, and undeniably beautiful.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eS\u003c\/i\u003etarred Review)\u003cbr\u003e \"One of the most daring novels of the year.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookpage \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eS\u003c\/i\u003etarred Review)\u003cbr\u003e\"Witty, self-knowing and, extraordinarily, far beyond categorization.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003eUK \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSurreal, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and 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] and play out an intimate relationship with the unattainable star. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen 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 and 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 and real life approach their final convergence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom a conspicuous new talent comes \u003ci\u003eY\/N\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEsther Yi was born in Los Angeles in 1989 and currently lives in Leipzig, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.35 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731905253439,"sku":"9781662601538","price":31.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6b04b62f795b434034963f59b1733506.webp?v=1765130544","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/y-n-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}