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Native Speaker
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Lee, Chang-rae
- ISBN
- 9781573225311
- Book Title
- Native Speaker
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / Espionage, General, Literary, Asian American
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 10.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 376 Pages
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The debut novel from critically-acclaimed and New York Times-bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea. In Native Speaker , author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American--a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets. Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1573225312
ISBN-13
9781573225311
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1019852
Product Key Features
Book Title
Native Speaker
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Espionage, General, Literary, Asian American
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3562.E3347n38 1995
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Reviews
"One of the year's most provocative and deeply felt first novels...a searing portrait of the immigrant experience."— Vanity Fair "With echoes of Ralph Ellison, Chang-rae Lee's extraordinary debut speaks for another kind of invisible man: the Asian immigrant in America...a revelatory work of fiction."— Vogue "The prose Lee writes is elliptical, riddling, poetic, often beautifully made."— The New Yorker "Deft, delicate...The book's narrative is lyrical, its plot compelling...The novel's interwoven plots and themes, its slew of singular characters, and Henry's ongoing recollections and reflections are rich and enticing."— Boston Globe "A tender meditation on love, loss, and family."— The New York Times Book Review, "One of the year's most provocative and deeply felt first novels...a searing portrait of the immigrant experience."-- Vanity Fair "With echoes of Ralph Ellison, Chang-rae Lee's extraordinary debut speaks for another kind of invisible man: the Asian immigrant in America...a revelatory work of fiction."-- Vogue "The prose Lee writes is elliptical, riddling, poetic, often beautifully made."-- The New Yorker "Deft, delicate...The book's narrative is lyrical, its plot compelling...The novel's interwoven plots and themes, its slew of singular characters, and Henry's ongoing recollections and reflections are rich and enticing."-- Boston Globe "A tender meditation on love, loss, and family."-- The New York Times Book Review, "One of the year''s most provocative and deeply felt first novels...a searing portrait of the immigrant experience."- Vanity Fair "With echoes of Ralph Ellison, Chang-rae Lee''s extraordinary debut speaks for another kind of invisible man: the Asian immigrant in America...a revelatory work of fiction."- Vogue "The prose Lee writes is elliptical, riddling, poetic, often beautifully made."- The New Yorker "Deft, delicate...The book''s narrative is lyrical, its plot compelling...The novel''s interwoven plots and themes, its slew of singular characters, and Henry''s ongoing recollections and reflections are rich and enticing."- Boston Globe "A tender meditation on love, loss, and family."- The New York Times Book Review, "One of the year's most provocative and deeply felt first novels...a searing portrait of the immigrant experience."- Vanity Fair "With echoes of Ralph Ellison, Chang-rae Lee's extraordinary debut speaks for another kind of invisible man: the Asian immigrant in America...a revelatory work of fiction."- Vogue "The prose Lee writes is elliptical, riddling, poetic, often beautifully made."- The New Yorker "Deft, delicate...The book's narrative is lyrical, its plot compelling...The novel's interwoven plots and themes, its slew of singular characters, and Henry's ongoing recollections and reflections are rich and enticing."- Boston Globe "A tender meditation on love, loss, and family."- The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
1995
Lccn
94-032241
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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