Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee

Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee

ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS

The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times-bestselling author of My Year Abroad and the highly anticipated A Tender Age

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.

Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft, which won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Prize for debut fiction. Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Princeton University and was named one of The New Yorker's twenty best writers under forty.

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ISBN 13	9781573225311
ISBN 10	1573225312
Title	Native Speaker
Author	Chang-Rae Lee
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ravenhead Books
Year published	1996-03-01
Number of pages	376
Prizes	Winner of ALA Notable Book., Winner of American Book Award., Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award., Winner of Granta Award., Winner of Oregon Book Award., Winner of PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel., Winner of QPB New Visions Award.
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