Native Speaker
New York : Riverhead Books, 1996, ©1995.
Format: Book
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade paperback edition
Description: 349 pages ; 21 cm
"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.
Subjects:
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Readers for new literates.
Korean Americans -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- United States -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Readers for new literates.
Korean Americans -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- United States -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1573225312
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Lee | Main (Downtown) | Fiction | Held |
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel, 1995
American Book Award, 1995
Oregon Book Award for Fiction, 1995.
American Book Award, 1995
Oregon Book Award for Fiction, 1995.