The Invisible Hotel

£9.99

Yewon is trapped. She’s stuck in Dalbit, the small Korean village of her birth, where the ancestral bones of her relatives live in her bathtub. Reeling from the loss of her father, she works long days at the convenience store and tries to keep the peace between her mother and sister, who are constantly at each other’s throats. But the nightmares are coming. Her little brother has just been conscripted into the Korean army, and he’s stationed near the North Korean border, sent to the frontlines of a decades-long war that they no longer understand. As news coverage about the North breaking armistice comes into sickeningly sharp relief, Yewon’s dreams about the ravaged hotel – where the war rages on – start to seep into her reality, and she is forced to confront the truth of her country, and the full weight of her inheritance.

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‘Haunting, compulsive, stylish’ ANNA METCALFE’You won’t be able to put this one down’ PAUL YOON’A horror story made into art’ CLAIRE CAMERON________________Having grown up in the long shadow of the Korean War, Yewon is stuck in her small village.She dreams of a hotel, where there are infinite keys to infinite rooms – and a quiet terror she is desperate to escape.But when her little brother is conscripted into the South Korean army, Yewon’s dreams start to seep into her reality, and she is forced to confront the unsettling truth about her country…Stylish, visceral and haunting, The Invisible Hotel is an unforgettable literary horror about the human consequences of war, and the toll of being born into a conflict that shows no signs of stopping.______________READERS ARE LOVING THE INVISIBLE HOTEL’A really good book”Written with such maturity and sensitivity”I can’t stop thinking about this book”Incredible”By turns horrific, surreal, sad, but not without humour and romance’

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Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 cm
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Publisher

Atlantic Books

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

320

Language

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K