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Native Speaker

  • 349 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1995
  • 9 editions

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1 About this book

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.

Good for readers who want: a mystery and spy fiction.

  • Korean Americans
  • Private investigators
  • Spy stories
  • Thrillers, espionage
  • Aliens
  • Individuality
  • New york

2 About Chang-rae Lee

Born 1965

Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University and director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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