Free Food for Millionaires | 誠品線上

Free Food for Millionaires

作者 Min Jin Lee
出版社 Head of Zeus
商品描述 Free Food for Millionaires:《柏青哥》作者李珉貞小說處女作《百萬富翁的免費食物》✰《泰晤士報》年度十大好書✰ThebrilliantdebutnovelfromtheNewYorkTimes-bestsellin

內容簡介

內容簡介 The brilliant debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Pachinko.'Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing... As easy to devour as a nineteenth-century romance.' NEW YORK TIMESCasey Han's years at Princeton have given her a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend and a degree in economics. The elder daughter of working-class Korean immigrants, Casey inhabits a New York a world away from that of her parents. But she has no job, and a number of bad habits.So when a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's determined to carve a space for herself in a glittering world of privilege, power, and wealth - but at what cost?As Casey navigates an uneven course of small triumphs and spectacular failures, a clash of values and ambitions plays out against the colourful backdrop of New York society, its many shades and divides. Addictively readable, Min Jin Lee's bestselling debut Free Food for Millionaires exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots.'Explores the most funadmental crisis of immigrants' children: how to bridge a generation gap so wide it is measured in oceans.' Observer'A remarkable writer.' The Times

作者介紹

作者介紹 Min Jin LeeMin Jin Lee is a recipient of fiction fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard. Her second novel Pachinko (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017. A New York Times Bestseller, Pachinko was also a Top 10 Books of the Year for BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the New York Public Library. Pachinko was a selection for “Now Read This,” the joint book club of PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. It was on over 75 best books of the year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN. Pachinko will be translated into 25 languages. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (2007) was a Top 10 Books of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air, USA Today, and a national bestseller. Her writings have appeared in The New Yorker, NPR’s Selected Shorts, One Story, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, and Wall Street Journal. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea. In 2018, Lee was named as an Adweek Creative 100 for being one of the “10 Writers and Editors Who are Changing the National Conversation” and a Frederick Douglass 200. She received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Monmouth College. She will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College from 2019-2022.

商品規格

書名 / Free Food for Millionaires
作者 / Min Jin Lee
簡介 / Free Food for Millionaires:《柏青哥》作者李珉貞小說處女作《百萬富翁的免費食物》✰《泰晤士報》年度十大好書✰ThebrilliantdebutnovelfromtheNewYorkTimes-bestsellin
出版社 / Head of Zeus
ISBN13 / 9781801105323
ISBN10 /
EAN / 9781801105323
誠品26碼 / 2682227771000
頁數 / 672
裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 19.8 x 4.6 x 13
級別 / N:無
提供維修 /

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing... As easy to devour as a nineteenth-century romance.' NEW YORK TIMES