Sublimation 9781035065523 Hardback

The international bestseller. A masterful tale of doppelgngers, betrayal and uncovering who you are.’A mind bending thriller about personhood, homeland nostalgia, global migration, and all forms of alienation’ R. F. Kuang, author ofYellowfaceandKatabasis’Brilliantly realised, imaginative and compelling’The GuardianWhen you emigrate, you leave a version of yourself behind. One instance crosses the border; the other instance stays trapped behind it.Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily, synchronize their lives and minds in the hopes of reintegrating and resuming a life as one person. Other instances, like Soyoung Rose Kang, leave home at age ten and never speak to their other selves again.With a life of her own in New York, Rose never imagined shed return to Korea. Then her grandfather dies and Soyoung, her Korean instance, summons her home for the funeral.But Soyoungs motives arent as innocent as Rose imagined, and the consequences of Roses return to Seoul will change her forever.Soyoung plans to steal her body and her life.From Nebula Award-winning author Isabel J. Kim,Sublimationis an immigrant tale like no other, capturing the longing for another life and twisting it into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse.’Remarkable’The New York Times’One of the best debuts of the year’ John Scalzi5 STAR READER REVIEWSThis book had mehooked from the very first chapter *****One of thebest debut novelsIve read in recent years *****Wow. what athought provokingand thoughtful novel *****Anincredibleconcept for a book *****Sublimationlives up to the hype *****A harshlybeautifulstory about the impossible choices in life and what could be *****