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Native speaker / Chang-rae Lee.
"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. And now, a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both -- and belongs to neither."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
"A clash of ethnic and professional loyalties is the subject of this novel. The protagonist is a Korean-American who works for a private intelligence service and is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician. To blow the whistle on a fellow ethnic would hurt his tribe, on the other hand there is his professional reputation to consider."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 1573225312
- ISBN: 9781573225311
- ISBN: 1573220019
- ISBN: 9781573220019
- ISBN: 9781862071148
- ISBN: 1862071144
- ISBN: 9780143124306
- ISBN: 0143124307
- Physical Description: 349 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Riverhead trade paperback and hardcover edition
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 1996.
- Copyright: ©1995
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Published in Great Britain by Granta (324 pages) in 1998.Penguin Drop Caps hardcover (370 pages) published by Penguin Books in 2013.
- Awards Note:
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel, 1995American Book Award, 1995Oregon Book Award for Fiction, 1995.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Ardsley Public Library | FICTION LEE (Text) | 31000150588930 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION LEE (Text) | 31005153735099 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Dobbs Ferry Public Library | LEE, CHANG-RAE (Text) | 31007150396693 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Greenburgh Public Library | LEE (Text) | 31009152003905 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library | FICTION LEE (Text) | 31011151029097 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Irvington Public Library | YA FICTION LEE, C (Text) | 31012154599177 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
| Larchmont Public Library | LEE (Text) | 31014153022243 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Mount Kisco Public Library | FICTION LEE (Text) | 31017150818711 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Mount Pleasant Public Library | FIC LEE (Text) | 31024100611980 | Fiction | Checked out | 12/20/2025 |
| Mount Vernon Public Library | MEZZ FICTION LEE (Text) | 31018151848160 | Fiction | Available | - |