| The Foreign Student Contributor(s): Choi, Susan (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0060929278 ISBN-13: 9780060929275 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Student unfolds the story of the burgeoning love affair between 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 irrevocably 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - East Asian - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Ethnic Orientation - Korean - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This wonderful hybrid of a novel--a love story, a war story, a novel of manners--introduces a writer of enchanting gifts, a beautiful heart wedded to a beautiful imagination. How else does Susan Choi so fully inhabit characters from disparate backgrounds, with such brilliant wit and insight? The Foreign Student stirs up great and lovely emotions. -- Francisco Goldman, author of The Ordinary Seaman 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Choi, Susan: - Susan Choi was born in Indiana and grew up in Texas. Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes & Noble. With David Remnick, she edited an anthology of fiction entitled Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. |