The Melancholy of Untold History A Novel - Digital Book Format PDF / EPUB / MOBI

A history professor mourning his wife. His young protégé’s search for a path forward. Four witty mountain gods with much to say & not enough time to listen. A gifted storyteller bringing a world into being out of thin air...

Famous for his dispelling of the national myth, the Historian understands the power of narrative. He has inspired another young professor to search for her own truths, while trying to understand the way fiction creates fact & how sometimes the past can only be understood by filling in holes with a new narrative. Which is exactly what he needs when his wife passes away to parse meaning out of a world that no longer makes sense.

Together the protégé & the Historian find comfort in each other. Yet they know their time together is fleeting, as time usually is. Only the gods have an abundance of time, & yet—the two discover—even that might not be so clear cut. Part of their homeland’s myth tells of four gods who squabbled & argued & destroyed & rebuilt time & again.

Or did they?

Because, of course, even the gods need mouthpieces on earth. And the one the Historian knows of—the elusive Storyteller—may have just been spinning tales for his own amusement and, ultimately, revenge. By fabricating the exploits of the gods, he could have set a course for certain events to unfold & a particular story to survive today.

Spanning 3,000 years & multiple voices—with tales within tales woven expertly together—The Melancholy of Untold History reveals a people & its individuals who seek to confront the hardships of life through storytelling. Mixing the East Asian mythos with a postmodern approach to standard sci-fi/fantasy narrative tropes, Minsoo Kang has created a challenging, beautiful, sad, humorous, &…