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The Foreign Student
A Literary Fiction Novel by Susan Choi
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Cross-Cultural,
- Romance
This book is for you if you're into...
- Cross-cultural connections shaped by trauma and longing
- Stories set in 1950s Tennessee and postwar Korea
- Characters haunted by secrets they can't share
A young Korean man scarred by war finds unlikely love in the American South in National Book Award–winning author Susan Choi's acclaimed debut novel.
Tennessee, 1955. When Chuck Ahn arrives in Sewanee to begin his studies at the University of the South, he is shy and speaks English haltingly. On the subject of his earlier life in Korea, he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine Monroe, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past.
Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation. Moving between the American South and South Korea, between an adolescent girl's sexual awakening and a young man's nightmarish memories of war, The Foreign Student is a powerful and emotionally gripping work of fiction.
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