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Subject(s)

• Korean Americans—Fiction [Browse]
• Immigrants—Fiction [Browse]
• Korea—Emigration and immigration—Fiction [Browse]
• New York (N.Y.)—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Series

Penguin classics [More in this series]

Summary note

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9780143134305 ((paperback))
• 0143134302 ((paperback))

LCCN

2019002100

OCLC

1089257980

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