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About the E-Books

Author
Don Lee
Co-Author
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Translator
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Published Year
2013
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > English and American literatures

Original Title
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Original Language

English(English)

ISBN
9781250023131
Page
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Series
Juniper Song Mysteries

About the Author

  • Don Lee
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  • Korean Name : Don Lee
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About the Original Work
  • Country of Origin
  • Author : Don Lee
  • Published Year : 2012
  • English Title : Country of Origin
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  • English(English)

A dazzling debut novel by the prize-winning author of Yellow, set in the unique and exotic nightworld of Tokyo.In this "poignant story of prejudice, betrayal and the search for identity" (Newsweek International), the trials and tribulations of these three remarkable characters are "at turns trenchantly funny and heartbreakingly sad" (Publishers Weekly). "[An] elegant and haunting debut" (Entertainment Weekly), Country of Origin is a "swirl of action, a whirl of love and sex and race and politics, local and international" (Chicago Tribune)—a "quiet literary triumph" (Booklist)

Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sad, brutal reign of conformity." When she vanishes, Tom Hurley, who is half-Korean and half-white, is assigned to her case at the American embassy, as is local cop Kenzo Ota, who is 100 percent Japanese but deemed an outsider.