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Chang-rae Lee

Biography

Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee is the author of NATIVE SPEAKER, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, as well as MY YEAR ABROAD, ON SUCH A FULL SEA, A GESTURE LIFE, ALOFT and THE SURRENDERED, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A 2021 winner of the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.

Chang-rae Lee

Books by Chang-rae Lee

by Chang-rae Lee - Fiction

Henry 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. 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.