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GESTURE LIFE

內容簡介

內容簡介 The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee.His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including the prestigious Hemingway Foundation PEN award. Now Chang-rae Lee has written a powerful and beautifully crafted second novel that leaves no doubt about the extraordinary depth and range of his talent.A Gesture Life is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful never to overstep his boundaries and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. Yet as his story unfolds, precipitated by the small events surrounding him, we see his life begin to unravel. Gradually we learn the mystery that has shaped the core of his being: his terrible, forbidden love for a young Korean Comfort Woman when he served as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II.In A Gesture Life, Chang-rae Lee leads us with dazzling control through a taut, suspenseful story about love, family, and community—and the secrets we harbor. As in Native Speaker, he writes of the ways outsiders conform in order to survive and the price they pay for doing so. It is a haunting, breathtaking display of talent by an acclaimed young author.

各界推薦

各界推薦 韓國裔小說家李昌來（Chang-Rae Lee）年紀輕輕，第一本小說Native Speaker即以移民題材一鳴驚人，第二本小說A Gesture Life，處理日韓兩重移民身分與歷史記憶，曾在二次大戰中背叛祖國的韓裔主人翁，為了擠進美國社會，不惜冒用日本姓氏以博取身分，良心、情欲、國族認同交相夾擊，由手勢與禮貌所構成的成功移民外表下，其實是孤獨而傷痕累累的自我；曾入圍IMPAC都柏林文學獎。

作者介紹

作者介紹 Chang-rae Lee is the author of 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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