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3.8/ 5
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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. As a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both -- and belongs to neither.

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The Swinging Light

Book Details

First Published

1995

Pages

349 pages

Rating

3.8 / 5

Ratings

6

Editions

9

Publisher

Granta Books

Language

KOR, ENG

Status

Published

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