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Gesture Life
Chang-Rae Lee
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Description for Gesture Life
Paperback. Franklin Hata, Korean by birth but raised in Japan, is an outsider in American society, but he embodies the values of the town he calls his own - he is polite and keeps himself to himself. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
Franklin Hata, Korean by birth but raised in Japan, is an outsider in American society, but he embodies the values of the town he calls his own - he is polite and keeps himself to himself. Franklin deflects everyone with courtesy and impenetrable decorum, and becomes a respected elder of his small, prosperous American town. 'You make a whole life out of gestures and politeness,' Sunny tells her adoptive father. But as Sunny tries to unpick her father's scrupulous self-control, the story he has repressed emerges: his life as a medic in the Japanese Army and his love for a ... Read more
Franklin Hata, Korean by birth but raised in Japan, is an outsider in American society, but he embodies the values of the town he calls his own - he is polite and keeps himself to himself. Franklin deflects everyone with courtesy and impenetrable decorum, and becomes a respected elder of his small, prosperous American town. 'You make a whole life out of gestures and politeness,' Sunny tells her adoptive father. But as Sunny tries to unpick her father's scrupulous self-control, the story he has repressed emerges: his life as a medic in the Japanese Army and his love for a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862074019
SKU
V9781862074019
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99-30
About Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee was born in South Korea and emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of three. He is the author of the novels Native Speaker, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, Aloft and, most recently, The Surrendered. He teaches creative writing at Princeton University.
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