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My Year Abroad

My Year Abroad
Original Title
My Year Abroad
Title Romanization
My Year Abroad
English Title(Printed)
My Year Abroad
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Author
Lee Chang-rae
Co-Author
-
Published Year
2021
Publisher
Riverhead Books
ISBN
9780593332535
Main Characters
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Subject/Theme
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Writer default image
  • Lee Chang-rae
  • Birth : 1965 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Chang-rae
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 이창래
  • ISNI : 0000000115844087
  • Works : 4
Published Year Publisher Country Vendor
2021 Penguin Publishing Group UNITED STATES OverDrive
Published Year Publisher Country Vendor
2021 Penguin Publishing Group UNITED STATES OverDrive
Descriptions(Languages 1)
  • English(English)

Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself. 
 
In the breathtaking, “precise, elliptical prose” that Chang-rae Lee is known for (The New York Times), the narrative alternates between Tiller’s outlandish, mind-boggling year with Pong and the strange, riveting, emotionally complex domestic life that follows it, as Tiller processes what happened to him abroad and what it means for his future. Rich with commentary on Western attitudes, Eastern stereotypes, capitalism, global trade, mental health, parenthood, mentorship, and more, My Year Abroad is also an exploration of the surprising effects of cultural immersion—on a young American in Asia, on a Chinese man in America, and on an unlikely couple hiding out in the suburbs. Tinged at once with humor and darkness, electric with its accumulating surprises and suspense, My Year Abroad is a novel that only Chang-rae Lee could have written, and one that will be read and discussed for years to come.