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East Goes West

East Goes West
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
Volume
-
Writer default image
  • Gang Yongheul
  • Birth : 1898 ~ 1972
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Yongheul
  • Family Name : Gang
  • Korean Name : 강용흘
  • ISNI : 0000000096540036
  • Works : 7
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 813 KanY e LTI Korea Library Available - -
Descriptions
  • English(English)

"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