East Goes West

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East Goes West

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Author: Younghill Kang
Co-Author: -
Translator: Younghill Kang
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published Year: 2019
Country: UNITED STATES
Classification: KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century
Original Title: East Goes West
Original Language: English(English)
Romanization of Original: East Goes West
ISBN: 9780143134305
Page: 389
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About the Author

Gang Yongheul
Birth : 1898 ~ 1972
Occupation : Writer
First Name : Yongheul
Family Name : Gang
Korean Name : 강용흘
ISNI : 0000000096540036
Works : 7

About the Original Work

East Goes West
Author : Gang Yongheul
Published Year : 1937
English Title : East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee

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"A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer's America" (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker) by the father of Korean American literature

A Penguin Classic

Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout the United States and Canada, becoming by turns a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer, and observing along the way the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century. Part picaresque adventure, part shrewd social commentary, East Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation. It is a masterpiece not only of Asian American literature but also of American literature.

Source : https://www.amazon.com/East-Goes-West-Younghill-Kang/dp/0143134302

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