- Korean Americans, Aliens, Fiction, Private investigators
Korean-American Henry Park is a "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, yellow peril: neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor, spy ..." or so says his wife, in the list she writes upon leaving him. Henry is forever uncertain of his place, a perpetual outsider looking at American culture from a distance. As a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both -- and belongs to neither.
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Contemporary, grave, contemplative and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Chang-rae Lee
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Granta Books, Riverhead Books, Namu wa Sup
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Korean, English
- ISBN
- 9781573225311
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“The day my wife left she gave me a list of who I was.”
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