Books by Chang-rae Lee (5)


1.
A Gesture Life

A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
From the acclaimed author of "Native Speaker" comes his second novel about a Japanese World War II veteran who becomes a proper man and upstanding citizen in New York.

2.
Aloft

Aloft by Chang-rae Lee EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
Jerry Battle, a suburban middle-aged man from Long Island, loves to fly his small plane solo and just "disappear", but when a family crisis occurs, Jerry must face his disengagement in his relationships and learn what it means to be a father, husband, son, and lover.

3.

My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire “A manifesto to happiness—the one found when you stop running from who you are.” –New York Times Book Review “An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements—and this is a book that moves…My Year Abroad is a wild ride—a caper, a romance, a bildungsroman, and something of a satire of how to get filthy rich in rising Asia.” – Vogue From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocat... continue

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Native Speaker

Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
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 On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. 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 fee... continue

5.
The Surrendered

The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
Thirty years after vying for the attentions of a beautiful but damaged missionary wife at a Korean orphanage, Korean orphan June Han and former GI Hector Brennan are reunited by a plot that forces them to come to terms with mysterious secrets from their past. By the author of Native Speaker.