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Chang-rae Lee

1995324 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995Riverhead Books · 324 pages · ENG
  • 1995Riverhead Books · 349 pages · ENG
  • 1996Granta Books · ENGISBN 9780140141313
  • 1996Riverhead Books · 349 pages · ENGISBN 9781573225311
  • 1995Brand: Riverhead Books · 324 pagesISBN 9781573220019
  • 2013Penguin Books · 384 pagesISBN 9780143124306
  • 2002Wheeler Publishing · 442 pages · ENGISBN 9781587242892

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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