Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel

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Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel

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Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/books/review/chang-rae-lee-my-year-abroad.html
Journal: The New York Times
Issued Date: February 05, 2021
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED STATES
City: New York
Book: -
Writer: Lee Chang-rae

About the Author

Lee Chang-rae
Birth : 1965 ~ -
Occupation : Writer
First Name : Chang-rae
Family Name : Lee
Korean Name : 이창래
ISNI : 0000000115844087
Works : 4

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English(English)

I can’t say exactly where much of Chang-rae Lee’s newest novel, “My Year Abroad,” is set, because the narrator, Tiller Bardmon, can’t tell us either. Ad hoc consort and au pair to a 30-something woman we know only as Val, Tiller lives with her and her young son, Victor Jr., in a smallish American suburb he calls “Stagno.” Val and VeeJ, as the boy is nicknamed, are in a witness protection program because of her disappeared husband’s “dealings with a gang of New Jersey-based Tashkentians that involved Mongolian mineral rights, faux sturgeon eggs and very real shoulder-mounted rocket launchers.” Tiller met her in a Hong Kong airport as he was escaping what was perhaps the biggest mistake of his life, and we soon learn that Val was doing much the same.

Translated Books4 See More

English(English) Book Available
영원한 이방인
Lee Chang-rae et al / 이창래 / 2003
French(Français) Book Available
Les sombres feux du passé
Lee Chang-rae et al / 이창래 / 2001
Korean(한국어) Book Available
척하는 삶
Lee Chang-rae et al / 이창래 / 2014