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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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
1996
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| Edition: | 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 349 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Awards: | American Book Award, 1996 Hemingway Foundation/ PEN Award, 1996 |
| ISBN: | 1573225312 (pbk.) 9781573225311 (pbk.) |