Native Speaker

Native Speaker

Lee Chang-rae / 이창래 / 1995 / -

The debut novel from critically-acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets. Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are. Source : https://www.amazon.com/dp/1573225312

A Gesture Life

A Gesture Life

Lee Chang-rae / 이창래 / 2000 / -

2005년 출간된 이창래의 장편소설이다. 작품은 1999년 미국에서 초판 출간되었으며, 2005년 한국어로 번역 출간된 것이다. 작가는 2차 세계대전 당시 일본군으로 종군위안부를 관리했던 주인공의 후회와 죄책감을 그리고 있다.

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Gajok

Lee Chang-rae / 이창래 / 2005 / -

2004년에 출간된 이창래의 장편소설이다. 원제는 다. 미국 롱아일랜드에 살고 있는 평범한 중산층의 은퇴 이후 삶을 다루고 있다. 후기 자본주의 사회에서 해체된 가족, 그리고 은퇴 후의 상실감을 깊이 있게 묘사하고 있다.

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Saengjonja

Lee Chang-rae / 이창래 / 2013 / KDC구분 > literature > English and American literatures

2013년에 한국어로 번역, 출간된 이창래의 장편소설이다. 원제는 이다. 한국전쟁을 배경으로 이루어진 세 사람의 인연을 이야기한다. 역사적 사회적 이유로 미국으로 이민을 간 인물 '준'을 중심으로 하여 전쟁에 대한 철학적 사유를 풀어나간다.

On Such a Full Sea

On Such a Full Sea

Lee Chang-rae / 이창래 / 2014 / -

2014년에 한국어로 번역, 출간된 이창래의 장편소설이다. 원제는 이다. 이 작품의 가상의 미래 미국 사회를 배경으로 이야기를 전개하고 있으나 사실상 오늘날 우리 사회가 마주하고 있는 문제점들을 드러내고 있다 틀을 깨지 못 한 채 한 곳에 머무르는 사람들을 위로하면서, 한편으로는 틀 밖으로 나갈 용기를 주는 작품이라 평가된다.

My Year Abroad

My Year Abroad

Lee Chang-rae / 이창래 / 2021 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

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.