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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...

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Main Author: Lee, Chang-rae.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 1996, c1995.
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Korean Americans > Fiction.
Noncitizens > United States > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Spy fiction.
Summary: 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.
Physical Description: 349 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 1573225312 (pbk.)
Author Notes: Chang-Rae Lee was born in Korea and moved to the United States when he was a small child. He later attended Yale University and is currently a professor at the University of Oregon.

Lee became the first Korean-American novelist to be published by notable American press with his novel, Native Speaker. The novel was awarded the Heminway Foundation PEN Award. In 2014, he made The New York Times Best Seller List for his title On Such a Full Sea.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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