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A detective novel set in New York featuring a Korean private eye. It is also a novel about the immigrant experience, about identity, loyalty and the languages that define us.
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"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
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"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
Chang-rae Lee is the author of On Such a Full Sea, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Selected by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Princeton University.
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- PublisherPenguin Books / Granta
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0140141316
- ISBN 13 9780140141313
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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