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NATIVE SPEAKER

內容簡介

內容簡介 The debut novel from critically-acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea. 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 feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets. Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.

各界推薦

各界推薦 韓裔小說家Chang-Rae Lee二歲的時候就移民到美國，他年紀輕輕就在歐美的文學界展露頭角，出版第一本小說《Native Speaker》即以移民題材一鳴驚人，並且獲得六個重要獎項。 《Native Speaker》的故事以美國當地的韓裔第二代，夾雜在兩個文化之間的矛盾與困窘，主角朴亨利本身從事偵探的工作，監視一位美國韓裔政治人物，不過他卻陷入身分認同與家庭生活的危機之中。

作者介紹

作者介紹 Chang-rae Lee is the author of On Such a Full Sea, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award for first fiction, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Selected by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Princeton University.

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