East Goes West - Younghill Kang

A beautiful collectible hardcover edition of the father of Korean American literature''s "wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer''s America" (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker)A Penguin Vitae EditionHaving 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
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