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My Year Abroad: Chang-rae Lee explores what it means to feel like an outsider in an adopted country

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Article
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3120528/my-year-abroad-chang-rae-lee-explores-what-it-means
Journal
Post Magazine
Issued Date
February 06, 2021
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
City
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Book
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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
Descriptions - 1 Languages
  • English(English)

Chang-rae Lee’s latest novel, My Year Abroad, is part-bildungsroman and part-shaggy dog story, a great big novel overflowing with eating, multilingual phrases (including Mandarin, Korean, even Yiddish), the finer points of fast food and high-cuisine, references to German and Japanese knife-making, boating, etymology, more eating, surfing, pop psych, mall architecture, Chinese environmental regulation, scuba diving, drugs, dog sledding and still more eating. (For a true sense, please repeat the following quote between each review paragraph as a chorus:)“[M]orsels of deep-fried rabbit drown­ing in chili peppers, ribbons of beef tendon in a sweet, spicy sauce, and handmade noodles with pork and pickled cabbage, sautéed bitter melon, and gooey little tenders of braised eggplant …”

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