The Foreign Student Paperback - 2004
by Susan Choi
Hailed as an "auspicious debut novel" by "The New Yorker, " this sophisticated tale recalls the love affair of a Korean man scarred by war and the troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family.
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Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Student is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation. Moving between the American South and South Korea, between an adolescent girl's sexual awakening and a young man's nightmarish memories of war, The Foreign Student is a powerful and emotionally gripping work of fiction.
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- Title The Foreign Student
- Author Susan Choi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-09-21
- ISBN 9780060929275 / 0060929278
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: East Asian
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Korean
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Love stories
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 08/15/1999, Page 28
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